Camping with the leeches

Last weekend I attended a random 60th birthday party with Emily and her brother Will. It entailed a bit of camping up in the bush near Dungog on the south side of the Barrington Tops. It should have been a pretty straightforward excursion but things took a strange turn early doors. That's to say we took a strange turn off the main road following what the TomTom sat nav said. The road soon turned into a track which turned into a walking trail which turned into a river which then just stopped. Although we were in Will's 4x4 Hilux, there was no way back due to crazy hills we'd come down and a crazy river we'd crossed and the crazy jungle was tight on both sides anyway meaning we couldn't turn round even if we'd wanted. We ended up driving across a couple of fields before finding the road we should have been on. TomTom meant well but the shortest route is not always the best one.

Wonga Pigeon

We set up camp on the property where the party was held only to discover that the place was crawling with leeches and funnel-web spiders. Emily was attacked by both but I managed to avoid them luckily. It was then that the deadly snake arrived but unfortunately for it, it had decided to stay in a hole under the camp fire and so when it emerged the poor thing was cooked. Nice party though and a load of Wonga Pigeons about which was super good.

Brush Turkey