Today is the first day in a week or so where we haven't had friends staying. Our friends, Grant and Kelley (from Sydney) and Michael and Murray (from the Central Coast) arrived last week to bring in the new year with us. There was quite a bit of champagne drinking, great food eating (Kelley made a delicious risotto while Steve and I cooked up a Thai banquet on another night while Grant made a delicious caramelised onion and goat cheese tart, not to mention the perfectly marinated lamb cutlets that Murray did,....yes we ate well) and lots of laughs.
There was also a bit of sewing as Grant and Steve set about creating costumes for us to wear at this year's Tropical Fruits NYE Party, the theme of which was Beyond Atlantis. It looks like a sweat shop a little, doesn't it, but rest assured the boys weren't chained to the sewing machines and overlockers for too much of the time.
By Xmas Eve I was antsy for a bushwalk so Steve, Michael and Murray headed over to Nightcap National Park about 15 minutes north east of Nimbin to go for a walk. On the way up to the park, Michael spotted this very lovely and very yellow carpet python sunning itself on the edge of the road
Murray decided he wasn't quite up for the walk so he remained back at the start of the track while the rest of us did a walk to Mount Mathieson. Was a very nice walk, quite cool though for the part through the rainforest and we actually lost 5 degrees Celsius just in the drive up to the start of the walk from Nimbin. We managed to spot a yellow faced whip snake and a land mullet so was very enjoyable.
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Love to see men on sewing machines...and nice snake, too! :) You will have to come and see the carpet python snake skin Noah found a couple of weeks ago - 4 metres long!!! And apparently the longest on record is 4.2, so pretty close....
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