Today I woke up at 10:30 to be taken for a ~1 hour drive to a place in rural NSW, a dairy farm that my dad's friend owns. The farm sits beside the "Williams River", which runs from Barrington Tops all the way down to the coast. I've compiled a couple of maps to better demonstrate where I was: (Black = where I was, White = where I came from to go there)
You can't see it by looking at those maps, but the area I was in is very high up and is surrounded by many beautiful mountains & landscapes.
The river that runs through it is a pristine, amazing, clear river that, at each point on our trip around the property we were on that we saw the river, never ceased to amaze. There were points of rapid, points of near stillness and points of a moderate stream of water. I snapped but two image of the river (Which were quite poorly taken - my bad!
), the first two, so I stole a few images from Google to better demonstrate how amazing it is:
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Anyway, the owner of the property had a baby cow tied up to a fence, and he calmed it down and it started sucking his finger. Intrigued, I replaced his fingers with mine and this cow was sucking my fingers. Needless to say, it felt quite strange but was certainly quite amazing.
We walked along the river for a few KM's, then the farm owner got his truck and took us to the hill to look down at the valley (As seen above - you can see the truck in a few of the pics too
). There was about 6 of us in the back of his truck, exposed to the wind, and about 4 of them were old people who were scared shitless. Of course, I egged the property owner on to go faster and faster, using taunts such as "Have we left first gear yet?" to the dissatisfaction of those who were scared beside me, who began to get quite agitated and even hit me
On the car trip home, it was about 5:30PM (By this time it was almost pitch black) and I was playing around with my iPad ( :roll: ), when all of a sudden my dad yells out "SHIT!", I quickly look up and see the car in front of us veering off the road to avoid a kangaroo that just jumped in front of them. I kid you not, a fucking kangaroo jumped across the road in front of this car. I watched the bastard run off into the bush and when we overtook the car that was in front of us, the driver still had his mouth wide open in what appeared to be shock.
My brother had cut his leg on a rusty barbed wire fence, so now he has to get a Tetanus shot, which I am annoying him about at every chance I get.
I hope you all enjoyed a little insight into the sights that very few Australians ever see, quite contrary to popular belief.
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