Happy New Year

Hello and Happy New Year
I hope 2020 is a wonderful year for you all.

The other day Jeff was all fired keen to dash back up to Weld River for some more sapphire hunting. Well, why not?
It was a hot day, and hot days are wonderful if you can spend them in a river!

We found lots more little sapphires that I have yet to photograph. Nothing that will make us filthy rich, but its a lot of fun.

We walked quite a way up river this time and found a nice spot that was easy to sprawl out and fossick.
Not to mention cool off when necessary:

We saw a decent sized tiger snake on our walk back to the car! :O Annoyed I still didn’t get a photo to impress you all haha
Thing was, it slithered under a rock, the rock we were standing on ready to jump down and I had no way of seeing if it was just waiting there for me or had another avenue of escape! In the end I made an ungraceful leap for it, turning and backing up to see if anything fangy was coming. Nope. Lots of holes in embankment so it would have just disappeared into the cracks.
Jeff followed me down and all ended well 🙂

I’d been meaning to snap the rock fish – so we stopped at Derby for the photo!
Some clever clogs recognised the shape in the rock and took advantage.
The little sleepy town of Derby has woken with a vengeance in the past years.
They’ve created world class mountain bike tracks and people come from all over to use it. World championships are held here.
The place is teeming with people on bikes – lots of families, kids etc. Lovely to see.

Back home, New Years Eve was a quiet one for us.
I picked some strawberries and made us fresh milkshakes with generous amounts of ice cream in them.

Found Pip had opened my kitchen cupboards and got himself in… and wouldn’t come out until I got the camera out for a name and shame moment… little snot of course jumped out.

I had a couple of dead bananas that needed to be made into a cake… so I did that. As well as baked some bread and did two batches of yet-to-be-photographed soap.

So… what to do on the first day of 2020?
Getting out of my PJ’s would be an excellent start!

Love and best wishes to you all as we head into a brand new year!
Thank-you so much for continuing to follow me along with my stories xxx
Cheers