National Parks & Communities

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Jan 9
Bu-la-de-lah - Ba-daah-da-da-da bu-la-de-lah ba-dah da daah…

Today Luke pissed in a bush several times and I ate rotten lettuce & sprouts… blluurgh….

Yay we finally got the box we’d bee talking about to store all the crap that’s been floating around Ishi, sending me quietly (and not so quietly insane)… And now Sufiyo is much happier, and Luke is much happier and it feels as if we are just setting out on our journey for the first time

*Luke chirps in* “…and sufiyo had a No-Bra Day!”

Jan 10
Booti Booti National Park & toe jam
Spent night at Seal rocks… but not a seal to be seen - a sting ray though
Ahh what a beautiful morning….. I sat on the rocks amongst the morning humanoids & excreted my confest toe jam - it had a peculiar smell… & even a stranger taste - organic toe jam mmm…..

Lost in the stix of a small town national park - who’d have thought?
What an adventure - no four wheel drive and oh my the hills and creek beds were extreme. At one stage little Ishi just didn’t have any more steam to make it up a hill out of a dry creek bed and luke had to let her roll backward in order to get a run up to plant the foot out of there! It wasn’t particularly reassuring to see an old abandoned datsun rusting out next to the creek bed!
Survived - back in civilisation after what felt like hours - funny that… a half hour drive inciting the adrenalin, feeling like a several hour journey…

Jan 12-13
Bundagen
Late night expedition made by Lucas: - surprised by a slippery slimy scaly creature under the foot -jump jump jump run run (seems they ran away from each other in the same direction - lucky Luke we call him) …then we got lost, and lost some more - so had to back track to possibly go meet the snake again - that old cliché of men not admitting when they are lost lives on I can attest!

Continuing on our mission to shop our way through the east coast of Australia, we are now in Goonelebah - looking for a drinking coconut - I’ve strangely become addicted to, of all things, ocean trout tastes suspiciously like salmon when marinated in lemon! It really is doing it for me.

A night spent somewhere in Bellingen too…

Jan 14
Protestor’s Falls - Nightcap National Park -The Channon markets
Was especially looking forward to the mushroom man - but alas! No mushroom man! However, we’re all be pleased to know that after a well-wearing of a repertoire of 2 t-shirts/one pair of pants and a pair of shorts, Luke has bought himself a new wardrobe (well the clothes that go in it

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