Happy 28th Birthday

We spent Mekayla’s birthday yesterday the way all good birthdays should be spent: camping! We started off the camping season camping on Cape Cod for my birthday, and now we’ve gotten rather adept at it after having camped about 23 of the past 30 nights. Pretty good start to our year in the wild.

Although my posts are still a bit behind the times we’re now down on the outskirts of the Blue Mountains about 250 km west of Sydney. We stayed at Dunn’s Swamp which despite the name is an amazingly beautiful area where an ancient river carved deep troughs into the surrounding sandstone.

We had gotten a little worried before we got here that it was going to be rather cold (after one night where it dropped down to freezing). But the weather has actually improved as we went more south and spring is beginning to show us some of the great Australian wildflowers that we have read about. And never fear parents, our sleeping bags and tent are holding up exceptionally well in the weather.

Today we are heading up into the Blue Mountains where we have rented a cottage for a more extended celebration of Mekayla’s birthday for the next four days. Then it will be on to Sydney and on the 19^th we are taking a train ride to Adelaide.

I guess the way to end this post is to finish off with some pictures of the birthday girl.

We had pancakes with chocolate melted on them for breakfast.