City to country

We’re leaving our city apartment to travel to the country to stay with Sandy. The apartment is on a very busy road intersection where a 7-lane highway crosses a further 6 and 5 lane highways and 2 tramlines so to say it’s always busy is putting it mildly. We collect our hire car from the airport and in no time we’re out of Melbourne heading along a dual carriage way to Eaglehawk. For large sections of this journey we are the only car on the road. Sandy meets us near a big shopping plaza, she’s told us she’ll be in a white car. Well, it must be white car day today as we eventually find her in the 4^th white car we pull up behind.

We follow Sandy to her house; the turnoff is a dusty road with very little housing but after following the dust cloud for a few minutes we’re there. It’s a beautiful, Queenslander style house set in 50 acres of land, all brown and dusty now due to the drought. We are both in awe of Sandy and the house as we know that it was designed by Noel and built by hand by just the 2 of them in 2 years. What an achievement, we can’t begin to imagine starting such a project. The whole area is so quiet and peaceful after our time in Melbourne, the contrast couldn’t be greater. We watch the kangaroos in the distance, searching for food, they soon bound away when we walk to the dam. Later, there are Rosella’s on the drive their bright red heads bobbing as they search for food. A meal and lots of chat is the end to a perfect start of our stay in Eaglehawk.