Gowrie

Peet has been a little up tight lately - high school and hormones I think - so we thought he needed some good hard work and a bit of a circuit breaker. Lee & Roger had been up to the Gowrie land (a subdivision outside Toowoomba) to put up lot numbers and didn't get the job finished so Roger and Peet went up to finish the job and camp overnight.

It's a gorgeous piece of land - beautiful views and stars, wallabies, huge centipedes and so on. Lee even saw an echidna once. It is also home to the endangered Black Breasted Button Nosed Quail - hence the 25 ha of sanctuary we had to keep around the bottom.

The boys drove up on Friday afternoon - they couldn't leave till 1.30 pm because Peet wanted to eat lunch with his friends at school- had pork chops and canned spaghetti (it's a camping-with-Roger tradition - glad I never go camping with Roger alone) - and half froze since a cool change came through that afternoon. The land is high and on the top of a plateau and the wind whistled through and chilled their bones - and they loved all of it. They put up all the signs - collected a bunch of very nice rocks for my garden and shot some tin cans with subsonic bullets bought for the occassion.