Our travelling has stalled as we stumbled across a small acreage that seemed too good to be true, so we decided to put in a ridiculous price. They accepted and now we own our own little piece of paradise.
Right on the banks of:
A fresh water conservation reserve. An abundance of wildlife - black swans, spoonbills, frogs, legless lizards and snakes all live amongst us. We even have resident deer - although they are too shy for a photo shoot.
Our first sighting
It was love at first sight![]()
It looked like there was some serious work to do
So off to the hire shop for a self propelled slasher
Even I got into the action and helped mow down the tall grass - it took six hours
Then finally it was settlement and our big day of arrival
We experienced our first new sunset
And this followed with a fresh new dawn
There is a guardian of the lake
We planted lots of new trees including natives, lemon and lime trees. We dug our first vegie patch
Rob has done his research and we are now growing organic garlic - our first seed crop is in for next season. Rob has rotary hoed over 50 rows and temporarily seeded most rows with peas and oats which will be rotary hoed back into the soil to enrich it for next year.
It's coming along nicely
And here's hoping there's a pot of gold at the end of this rainbow - although we seem to think we have already found it
