This past week has been another beautiful and busy week, we had great fun showing some of the sites to our first UK visitors to Naracoorte and we got more jobs done on the block, always work to do there but lots of fun.
To start with the Easter Lillies which had never flowered in our Adelaide garden have at last flowered and look fantastic. An added bonus and a great surprise was the scent they have which I'd not noticed before I got close enough to take this photo, it's like a very gentle lily of the valley and very beautiful. And then when we discovered they are native to Australia, our cup was over flowing.
Much to our delight and surprise we've found that there is always something happening here in the country and just recently was the Frances Folk Gathering. Frances is a very tiny town, in the UK it would qualify for being called a hamlet it's that tiny. For the last 15 years the good and musically talented folk of the township pool their skills and together with a small group of supporters in Adelaide put on a weekend of folk music and fun. It's brilliant, over the three day event they play host to some fantastic music, anyone who can play, sing or just want to listen can turn up and join in the fun. We managed to miss most of it but the little we did see has now got us making plans for next years event.
Whilst sitting chewing the cud in Deb and Roberts back garden this little chap flew down for a bath. He is a Rufus Wren and about the size of a UK Great Tit but with a beautiful fan tail.
We have now had our first UK visitors to Naracoorte. Our lovely friends Lara and Austyn dropped in on their way to the Great Ocean Road and Melbourne. It was our first opportunity to show off the sites and made us realise just how much there is to see and do here.
Wine tasting aside, the choice of which is vast and in abundance we also visited the Naracoorte Caves.
This whole area is called the Limestone Coast and, we discovered, was under the ocean some 60 million years ago. When the tide finally went out it left a huge sand bank which eventually became Naracoorte and the surrounding towns and some amazing caves.
These caves have since become home to some beautiful micro bats, which need to be encouraged as they are very handy to have around, they eat all sorts of tiny insects.
As the caves formed huge Calcite drifts also developed, this one looked like an unimpressive blob of melted wax. Then our guide demonstrated it's true beauty by holding a torch up to the calcite which lit the crystals up beautifully.
The caves are also home to other wee creatures sound asleep on this ridge you may just be able to make out a possum, it's tail is curled up over it's nose. What we couldn't see was it's baby tucked up very safely out of sight and probably sound asleep just like it's mum.
Hopefully we have managed to give Lara and Austyn a good taste of what's on offer.
Mean while at the block.....
The grass has been growing really well since Pete's sheep were moved. Rick noticed one of our neighbours pet Merinos trying to get her head through the fence and happily to obliged by picking a handful for her. Is it me or is she smiling?
Robert and Deb were on hand to lend enthusiasm, advice and their digging skills. I'm now adding to my ever growing skills base by learning how to not only pick up a sledge hammer but also swing it and hit what I'm aiming for!
It was like trying to move a mini caber but I was determined to carry the thing out of the way.
It was a great bit of team work accompanied by much fun and laughter.
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