Our family, our home, our adventures
I love swinging in the hammock at Ansels and Willow’s house. Rosie came into the hammock because her legs were too short to push herself and we got all scrunched up, which was fun. I wish I had a hammock at home to swing in.
When Rosie and I went out to play Rosie picked some leaves and tried drawing with them on the wall and it worked really well! She drew a self-portrait and wrote her and my name letter above.
Do you know what? You can draw on the wall with a jungle leaf! And I was drawing myself. This is the wall of our house. I wrote A and R above me. I stayed there for a while. It went away because of the rain in the end.
The girls with halos. Watching through the window as life pass by.
Margaret in a tea plantation below, which we wend our way through when going to the swimming hole at the river.
Our dining table / home school / kitchen / hand-wash area / next to the mosquito-nets hung over the girsl bunk-beds.
A watchful eye being kept over Rosie by our resident red-tailed monkey, (or is it a colubus?).
We splash around in the river which is fun, especially when my friends are there. Sometimes we have a picnic near to the river which means that I can look for fish.
I like going on the self-guided walk, which goes through the jungle and takes approximately 45 minutes. But sometimes you cannot go because there could be mountain gorillas on the path! (They are very, very strong, and can weigh up to 195kg!! Humans are only about 75kg. Fortunately, the gorillas are generally not aggressive). I have not seen a gorilla yet, but I would definitely like to, but not get too close.
Rosie had made sofa out of paper and selotape, which she was very proud of. A smile as big as some of the happy sofa-surfers!
Sheltering from one of the many rain-storms that frequent this cloud-forest. Umbrellas are useful both for rain and sun. There are many eucalypts, even some small plantations, but in the national park it is virgin old-growth tropical cloud-forest.