jo-wy: Wollemi

We had a lovely Easter out in Wollemi National Park, more exactly at a place called Hefrons Hole bordering on the park. We spend 4 very relaxing days with Quintin, Sal, little Harry, Solomon the dog and Sals parents Rob and Mary. It's such a quiet beautiful spot. No mobile phone coverage, no TV and no Internet. It's scary how much you rely on the above and you realise that you can olny truly wind down without them.

Sal's parents bought this big piece of land in the 70's together with three other partners so there's three other little cottages and houses in the area. They've built the cottage themselves out of big rocks and a mix of sand, clay, cement and water. Really impressive and very artistic with glass bottles incooperated into the walls for light and looks! A lot of the parts are recycled material with old church windows and a big aluminium window from Sweden:)

We spent the days hiking, relaxing, helping to build a wall structure for a little guest cottage and trying to spot some wildlife. It didn't take very long getting used to the outhouse (utedass) and the shower with almost no water pressure, although it was a bit scary with old dead spiders decorating the walls of the outhouse when you looked down... The house has solar panels for electricity and you think twice about using too much electricity or water. It makes you realise how much we waste in our daily life between long hot showers, running taps, lots of lights on, tv:s, laptops...etc...

Here's some pictures. We took loads as you can imagine, so we'll try to upload some more in another post.