Glen and Joel visit us

Even though we're coming into our fifth year up here, we still have friends who have yet to come visit, so it's always great fun when they do (and when other friends who visit regularly come up as well of course). Last week our friends Glen and Joel from Newcastle spent three nights with us. So I took a couple of days off work and we spent two excellent days showing the boys some of our fave spots in the Northern Rivers.

 So last Wednesday we first visited Nimbin, where the guys were keen to buy hemp and bamboo clothing before heading across to Protestors' Falls in the Nightcap National Park. The walk takes you through some lovely rainforest before leading to the waterfall, which was not so impressive because only a tickle of water was cascading over. But still beautiful.

 Glen and Joel - rather photogenic, don't you think?

 From the Falls we then drove down to Bangalow and then across to Byron. While we were still in The Channon, we spotted three camels, casually grazing a property. We'd seen them before and so we weren't so surprised, but it is still a pretty strange sight to behold. More bamboo and hemp clothing bought at Byron.

 Then on Thursday we walked the Barr Mountain Circuit Track in the Border Ranges National Park, which is an excellent walk and one which I've done probably half a dozen times now, although it was Steve's first go. We heard a male lyrebird calling, creating an amazing cacophony of bird sounds and calls, without seeing it.  But, much to our surprise we did see...

this guy, which is an immature wedge-tailed eagle, perched in a tree above the road as we were driving back out of the national park. It was still rainforest where we saw it, and it was happy enough to stay in the tree while we stopped and had a look.
Once out of the park, we lunched at Uki before spending some time at a rainforest nursery at Burringbah (with Joel buying several bush tucker trees and shrubs) and then down to Mullumbimby (where yet more bamboo and hemp clothing was purchased) and then on to Brunswick Heads for a swim.  The boys drove home to Newcastle on Friday morning.  It was a great few days.