A Nice Sunday Drive on Wednesday

Last Wednesday we went for A Nice Drive to Apsley Falls, about a hour north-east from here, not far from a small town called Walcha where we had a very nice lunch at one of the pubs first. We made a new friend in the car park while at the falls, this beady-eyed currawong, who is obviously used to scrounging from anyone with food - as a young tourist couple in a hired van found! Despite that nasty looking beak he/she was quite friendly, although I didn't hold out my hand.....I'm not that silly, I don't trust that pointy beak.
If you click on this sign it tells a little about the falls. We didn't see any peregrine falcons.
The falls start from a very benign river then tumbles over this cliff. You can see some large chunks of rock that have fallen in the past, they would have been nearly as large as a small car. Because of the rain over the past month or two there is quite a lot of water; we visited here a few years ago and there wasn't much more than a trickle coming over.
Down....down....down........to the pool at the bottom........
.........until the water flows away along this gorge, where it eventually joins another river then flows to the ocean. Compared to the volume of water at the top there seemed hardly any water down the bottom! This is part of Oxley Wild Rivers National Park.

We took a detour on the way home via Kentucky, a small village where the general store serves very good coffee and extremely nice cakes, white chocolate and raspberry cake for me and banana walnut cake with caramel icing for Kevin. No one seems to know why Kentucky was named, but in the Walcha district there is also Ohio, so perhaps an early settler had ties with America. I can remember visiting Kentucky as a child with my parents, we visited an apple orchard and bought a crate of fresh apples. The fruit industry is much smaller than it used to be as fine merino sheep growing has taken over in the district.

Then we drove home.

On another note I have been working on my nine patch challenge quilt and have three yellow blocks to make, then lots of blue water/ocean/ships blocks. While it will never win a blue ribbon I am pleased with it, some of the fabric has been in my stash for a long while so it's about time it was used. Perhaps it will be called "Anchors Aweigh".

The saga of EQ7 is continuing, but I don't want you all weeping on my keyboard so I will save it for another time.

"To Remove Sunburn.

Take two drams of borax, one dram of alum, one dram of camphor, half an ounce of sugar-candy, and a pound of ox-gall. Mix and stir well for ten minutes, and stir it three or four times a fortnight. When clear and transparent, strain through a blotting-paper and bottle for use."

If that doesn't remove your sunburn I don't know what will!

Best wishes to all the dads for Father's Day today - have a lovely day! And to the mums too, because without them there would be no dads, would there.

Jennifer