SUNDAY 15 NOVEMBER     ATHERTON

There was cloud build up through today, but little rain.

I washed the bedding and towels in the morning, and they actually got dry.

I sewed for a while.

After a fairly late lunch, we went for a walk, up the hill behind the caravan park. Actually, it seemed more like a small mountain to me! The track went through very long grass. This meant that I concentrated very much on watching the sides of the narrow track in case anything that I wouldn’t want to meet was lurking in the cover. It was very steep for the last kilometer or so. The walk took us almost two hours, and was pretty good exercise.

We had a great view from the hill top, over Atherton and out to the mountains at the back – it is a big range.

We could see one big farm area with a circular paddock divided into segments like an orange – maybe something to do with irrigation? Watched distant cows leaving their milking shed and walking to part of the circular area, so maybe it was a type of feed lot?

There were lots of midges about today. My feet are still really itchy from my most recent brush with hungry critters.

Tea was tomato soup, followed by corned silverside, with carrot, parsnip and potato.

John played computer games all night.