Sunday we had a family gathering with my cousin Martin's daughter, Nikki and her husband Shane coming over. Not seen her (or her brother Chris) in quite a few years!
L toR: Sylvia, yrs truly, Chris, Martin, Shane, Nikki
Monday Martin and Sylvia took me out to O'Reilly's Reserve right down on the border with NSW: lots of Rosellas (big budgies), lorikeets and bush turkeys. Also a slightly hairy 'tree-top' walk along a decidedly bouncy boardwalk suspended up in the canopy...
Wonderful drive through a countryside that is definitely different from NZ. More parched for a start - they are chronically short of water here. Reserves are down to 19% and 'Level 5' restrictions, which means no hoses, watering the garden (by can) only twice a week between 4pm and 8pm, only 4 minute showers etc. Level 6, due to come in in five or six months, will be even more draconian. Part of the problem of course is that they don't recycle any of their water back into the system. Seems so obvious when one comes from the UK (and esp when one has lived in London) where so much of our water is re-used. The attitude here is that they dont want to drink sewage thank you very much... Well, they may not have any choice in the matter if they dont get major, major amounts of rain very soon!
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