From Sydney to Walcha

Trish picked us up at the Hotel on Friday at 10:30 and took us to her place.  We re-arranged our belongings so we didn't have to take everything with us as we were going up-country to visit Kate, Trevor and Alex, more friends from Dalton's days of living here (except for Alex, she is 10, soon to be 11).

Trevor picked us up at Trish's house at 4:00 and we started our 5 hour journey to Walcha. Sallywood is the name of the property we were at.  It is a large ranch owned by Kate's brother Jim.  We spent two nights there.  The first morning after we arrived, Kate decided we should go walking about the ranch, she wanted to show us some views.  She didn't tell me, however, that the views were to be seen from the top of a mountain.  I only made it about 3/4 of the way to the top, almost straight up, thought I was going to fall a few times but I did manage to get quite a long way up, the views were spectacular.  Getting down was even harder than going up.  I don't know why I have to lose all my weight in two days. 

When we got back to the ranch, it started to rain.  Dalton and I are going to hire ourselves out as rainmakers, they really need it and we seem to be able to provide it.   Kate cooked a beautiful lamb dinner.  I know, I was surprised how much I liked it, maybe it was all the walking, I don't know the reason but it was damn good.