Interests:
Gardening Travel Horse riding Walking
Our block is 0.4 acres, that's around 2 normal housing blocks where we live, so our gardening is not to strenuous but its large enough to keep us busy. We started with a pre-owned home, with 7 saplings, we now have planted some 100 plus trees, lots of shrubs and many more ground covers, flowers and the like.
Some photo's are below:
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When we started the garden we tried to plant
a number of shrubs & trees that attract our native birds. We now have
daily visits by Red Wattle, White napped Honey Eaters, New Holland Honey Eaters,
Rosella's,Magpies, Ravens (looking for prey) and the Grey Strike Thrush pictured left. Other not so common birds are Mistletoe, Red Rumped Parrot, Galah and even a Ibis has flown in. |
This is new to us (the kids have just grown-up and now are somewhat independent) and we still have not got out of the country, but we do have our passports ready for the day we find a place better than Australia to visit. I like the idea of the Grand Canyon, New York (canyons of a different sort) and the U.K. (castles, green hills & History).
We have visited All states except Western Australia. Some day soon we must go as our daughter lives over there in Kalgoorlie, a major outback mining town in W A.
Look at our Holiday Photo's I've included some of the best for your please.
We have just started to be adventurous and began Horse riding, we do it when we go "on holidays", our favourite spot is the Coach House in the Grampians, Western Victoria, a lovely place to be.
The guy who runs it is Cameron McDonald, he's very patient and good at looking after you, he even supplies your boots, hats and wet weather gear plus a lovely coffee or tea at the end of the ride.
Try him he's good! Phone: 1800 647 794
Or look at his WWW Site at:- http://www.grampiansgrelcorun.com/rates.htm
Here is a picture of the family just starting out :-
Our holidays are based around walking , that's why we end up at so many National Parks. Victoria and Tasmania are the best places for walking with 2 of our favourite places being the Grampians in Victoria and Cradle Mountain in Tasmania.
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Updated on December 29, 2005
