Easter

Easter this year was a traditional Australian easter for our family. We stayed at home, a number of visitors called in and stayed and we played cricket in the garden, rode horses, walked in the Bald Rock National Park and ate some chocolate. Easter was early but cool and a bit wet, so cricket was good, but swimming was out the water at Stanthorpe is a bit cool in this weather !!!. Walking in the National Park was excellant, one of our favourite walks is to South Bald Rock, a couple of hours along the old state border fence, open views and cool, forested tracks. The border fence runs along the watershed of the Great Dividing Range so the track is high with slopes to the east and the west. Granite country is endlessly fascinating with changing colours, shapes and textures and a huge array of vegetation - ferns and mosses in profusion this year after a wet end of summer and beginning to autumn. The huge granite boulders at South Bald Rock are spectacular and provide a wonderful landscape in which to lose yourself wandering, gazing and imagining. The water pouring off the rocks over the ages has left little stream beds and coloured tracks across the surface and there are gardens with stunted trees and shrubs scattered across the huge open spaces on top of the rock. Massive boulders balance unbelievably and threaten to topple at any moment. The gorge through the middle of the rock provides habitat for remnant rainforest species and caves if we can ever find them.