Last night's storms flooded our tent and washed away the first 30 meters of our gravel track. To remedy the first concern, we moved all of our belongings up into the loft above the kitchen. Though a bit draftier, our new home will certainly keep us drier in the event of any more violent storms. Fixing the damaged track proved a bit more difficul...

Checking the rain gauge in the morning, showed only 5 millimeters of precipitation last night, hardly the storm event the weathermen were calling for. A quick check of our track showed no damage, the rain, however, had help to pack down the crushed red granite. Today we began work on the much larger trail connecting the Dragonweyr Reserve to its...

By noon we had finished grading and laying red granite along the short, 150 meter trail. My primary chore today was assessing the natural drainage of the area and digging in the woo-boys (Australian slang for drainage channel). While most of trail work is rough and physical, drainage installation is more of a fine art, a nice change of pace from...

Thought I deserved a little holiday after my six weeks of hard work watching movies and eating pizza, so me and Clare from the Pink House had a bit of emotional goodbye from Sydney, and headed out on the twelve hour overnight bus journey to Byron Bay. Here we mate up with my mates Cara and Polly, who were chefs at the cinema and had decided to s...