My diary continues:
Painted some clapsticks the colour of cucumber, then chatted to Chris about improving the signage to guide customers into the place, then put in some fence extension into the dirt to stop the dogs digging and getting in under the fence.
Jess and Emily turned up. Emily studied medecine at UQ and will be doing her internship soon. What an adventuring hero to take the bus here, Jess too. She's studying public health, is as white as snow so the winter sun is still a problem, and has interesting east European heritage. Chris and Mary got into the gallery and were snapping up some stuff.
Today Chris and Mary were off, finalising a few more purchases, and most of us went up to the hill with a cross on it to check the view over town. The view to distant mountains is amazing - there's flat plains, and mountains all jumbled in. Some mountains seem to be on their own in the middle of the plains. Some have the alien flat top characteristics. The afternoon I spent sweating and breaking my back digging a long trench for more fence extensions down the side of the property. Tonight we went out to see the sunset, about 20kms out of town. Gave the car a decent scratching passing the plants. Oh well, that's what it's for. The view is like Devil's Marbles, split and crumbling, a bit like the alpine rocks and crunchy grasses of Jinabyne, just in the centre of Oz.
Met Alessandro from Sardegna today. He carries mostly food, water and a tent, just two changes of clothes. He's cycled since Kings Canyon at least: a long way! He's a physicist, looking for adventure before he settles down to research.
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