Meet Antonin and Kevin, HelpXers from France

 Kevin and Antonin have been with us for a bit over a week and have fitted in very easily and very well to the Larnook lifestyle. They are great fun and wonderful workers. Here they are preparing for a French dinner party we hosted on Saturday night. They cooked a tasty savoury loaf and a quiche lorraine.

 Steve set up the table, creating a French flag out of three individual table cloths and Glen found some suitable vin blanc and vin rouge in Lismore. Jason and Dale and of course Shane, Steve and I, completed the table. We had a fabby night, and in the words of Calixte, our French son, we all got a little bit silly.

 So silly, in fact, that the boys didn't wake from their bed until 11am. I then took them up to Border Ranges National Park, which had been closed for the past six weeks or so because of the damage that had been caused by the cyclone event we experienced back then. As I was driving up to the park I started wondering whether in fact the walking track I wanted to take the boys on would actually be open. A ranger vehicle driving out of the Barr Mountain picnic area from which the track starts, pulled us over and the friendly ranger told us that indeed the walking track was well and truly closed. So we continued driving to the Pinnacle Lookout, from which you can gain a brilliant view over the Wollumbin crater. And I took a couple of pics of the boys (Antonin on the left, my namesake, Kevin, on the right - yes, Kevin is a reasonably common boy's name in France, apparently).

We kept driving westward until we got to Sheepstation Creek camping area, from which a number of walking tracks slither through the bush. Because it was getting a little late, we chose a short track to Brushbox Falls, which was quite lovely. A couple of goannas and a very cheeky yellow eared honeyeater topped the day off. And then it was home through a big storm via Kyogle.