Australia Day

G'day Mates,

Today is Australia Day, a National Holiday so I promised myself a day off.

BUT, this week I'm getting new data so you can expect new nice stories with movies as soon as possible!!

Till then, and for the Aussies amongst us: HAVE A NICE AUSTRALIA DAY!

Cheers...

Wise words

Hi Guys,

Still no new data so I can’t make a story with a film in it so you have to do with just pictures.

But first this; I read a saying somewhere what I want to share with you. I can assure you that it isn't something Fred and I have to care about because even during our working life we did a lot of travelling and other things we like and as you can see, we still do.

 So read it a few times and if you think it refers to you, you might consider changing something in your life;

“It’s real easy to get that busy making a living, that you forget to make a life!”

OK, after these wise words lets go on with the blog and I show you what we do more here on the farm;

Exploring the region by having a walk with the flies.........

making a new story on the weblog, because there is full sunshine and I'm determined to stay outside, I have to put a towel over my head to see the pictures properly.....

have some fun with a gun.......

Having some culinary highlights:

Tuna salad with self picked lettuce.....

fish, caught by Robby, one of David and Lorraine's sons.....

Goose, also a specialty of the farm.....

And then; Christmas, of course we had to create a bit Christmas atmosphere;

again a culinary highlight;

relaxing with Google......

sharing a chair with a bug.....

sharing a lettuce with a dragonfly, 

making strange pictures....

Shopping, exploring and having lunch in Kingscote......

Kingscote is the capital of Kangaroo Island and has nearly half of the Islands population (total 4600).

Situated on the beautiful Nepean Bay....

I know you already saw a sunset on a previous story but they are different every time and soo beautiful...

Till we meet again!

Cheers!

The Farm

G’day mates,

Do you recognise this; “ time flies when you are having fun”?  I was in a shock when I realised the week is gone again and I’m due to make a new story.

Actually I have a disappointment because I wanted to tell the story about our jobs and picking lettuce, unfortunately now I have 3 problems, not life threatening though, but still. My first problem is, we are building a toilet and shower and that’s not ready yet. The second problem is that we are building something else but that has to do with the lettuce and so I want to tell that lettuce story first but I can’t, not yet, because I ran out of data! Can you still follow me??

OK, I’ll explain. We have a contract with Optus for 10 GB per month and normally that’s more than enough but yesterday I got an e-mail from Optus that I had used 86% of my data with still 16 days to go. Immediately I went to my account to see what happened and saw that on the 5^th of January I had used more then 2 GB and then I realised it had to do with the bad reception here and the three films I downloaded and produced that day for my previous weblog. Normally its not a problem but that day I noticed the download from the laptop to YouTube nearly took 2 hours. Also on and about 1 and 2 January a lot of data has been used because of Skype.

Anyhow you must be thinking what a story of picking lettuce has to do with the data, well I can assure you that its no boring story and I have a very nice movie coming with it so….. you can fill that in yourself.

So no lettuce today, what else do I have; The Farm, I’ll give you an impression what’s living and laying around the farm, just look (no film today);

You already have seen a bit of the view we have but here is some more, we sometimes feel we are living in the Series McLeod’s Daughters except there are no cows.

The animals;

Horses...

Ducks...

Little ducks and quails .....

This little private property is from Aidan (9yrs), one of the farmers boys, he definitely is a small farmer in the shell (double dutch I presume)....

Duckssssss, Chicken, Geese......

Geese are EVERYWHERE!!

Chicken....

for the eggs, and we got a few quail eggs from Aidan....

Just things you cannot throw away, you might need them once....

(I can tell you that Fred already used a few things out of that pile haha)

More around the farm......

here has been a house from previous owners of the farm, only the chimney exists;

Some old equipment, Crikey it looks like a museum out here!

A farm without a barn is no farm.......

Sometimes someone dies.....

After a long day, (working from 05.30 in the morning), sitting in front of our caravan (when we don't blow away), we enjoy our drink and this sunset;

our friends come to say good night......

and we say goodnight to the world!!

SHI....., I forgot the sheep, there are hundreds of them!

One thing is for sure; we don't have to count them to get to sleep!!

See ya next time.

  

Welcome to Kangaroo Island

G'day Mates!

First of all;

Before telling you what we do during the day around here I first show you our trip on the ferry, our camping spot on the farm with the view and take you to our first trip on the Island; Emu Bay. I've got three movies this time so I hope you will enjoy it all guys.

Fortunately, despite the forecast which told us there would be a lot of wind and rough sea, the sea was nice and smooth so we didn't need the tablets against seasickness Elaine had given us. I hope we don't need them on our way back either pfff.

Kangaroo Island in the distance...

Arrival at Penneshaw....

Now we have to drive approx. 65 k's to the farm, of which, what we didn't know, approx. 17 dirt road from the sealed Hog Bay Rd to the farm. Happy we are with our 4WD because the last hill to the farm couldn't be taken with the ford!!

Anyhow this is our spot for the few coming weeks;

1rst movie;

On 13th of December we had our 29th wedding-anniversary 

and we got a lovely, superb bottle of wine from the farm owners! By the way, their names are David and Lorraine, that's nicer to wright about. 

And we have visited Emu Bay, its the only beach were you are allowed to drive on with your car, you'll see that later..... 

fishermen feeding the Pelicans with what they cut off the fish....

And now our first experience with the car in 4 wheel drive, look how beautiful the beach is. David and Lorraine also train race horses and so they go often to this beach to have a good run with the horses....

OK mates, that's it for now;

Kangaroo Island to be continued....

Cheers!