Everyone lives for the NEW experiences in life, and today we had one of our own…
Yes, to many the experience that I am talking about to would sound mundane, but to us, it is exciting, new and the kids love it…
So what is it that I’m talking about???
A food drop across a flooded river by flying fox….Of cause.
We are due to head up that way to pick up our essential items at 11 am this morning and I am taking the camera to get a photo and the video to film…
We have been flooded in for a week or so now, this is the amusement for the day.
What happened and was it as exciting as we thought??
It was pretty awesome the way they got the rope across, apparently, the sent a drone over with the rope (nearly losing it...).
They have the rope rigged with a pulley so that the dingy is attached with a carabiner and they pull it from side to side, reloading and using a UHF to talk from one side to the other.
We have been told that with the washout from the floods and the burnt down bridge from the fires earlier, we are looking a minimum of another week before we can get out.
We have enough food for the time being, so this isn’t a problem for us or our immediate neighbors.
Does this mean we are trapped in Newton Boyd??
Well yeah, The other end of the road has been pretty well washed away and the bridge at Buccarumbi is still under. With more rain predicted for the coming week, you can guarantee that the bridge there will be under for some time yet.
This may sound grim to those that love to feel like they have freedom, however, for us, this is a time to get those little jobs done that we leave to the last minute.
These jobs are the ones that keep Stuart’s bees working hard… Making frames, wiring frame, adding foundation to frames and all very time-consuming jobs that we can get ahead on.
We also get to watch the grass grow, Yes I know that sounds weird, but the grass here is super fast-growing. In fact, I am sure we can hear it growing.
What about the kids, are they enjoying being closed in??
The kids LOVE being stuck in, they travel around so much that when here they love just relaxing, doing some school work (they still have satellite lessons) and being free to explore.
As you can see, as we were getting our food drop done, the kids were busy playing in the water at the river.
This has been a valuable lesson about floods for them, an education that they simply could not have gotten from books.
In fact, only two of our children were born when the last floods hit and that was in 2012. This meant that the other two have been born in the ever-increasing drought that has been hitting Australia.
Seeing this much water in the river has excited, astounded and scared them a little, as they have not seen so much EVER in their young lives.
What is going to happen from here??
Stuart will take the first opportunity that he can to get out so that he can check up on the bees and make sure that they have enough food to keep going.
We will continue to hang out here until the road is fixed and the waters receded enough to get to town.
I will enjoy my 40th birthday here tomorrow with my local community, and the best bit, life will continue to roll on.
For now, though I shall end this here and say hello, thanks for reading and goodbye.
Have an awesome day, week and stay awesome… 🙂
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