Day trip to Mt Baw Baw with the family!

Well it was supposed to be a quick day trip to the snow at Lake Mountain on the one day that Danah, Karen and I could all make it. Due to some warmer weather, Lake Mountain had no snow, so we had to drive a little further for the "white" stuff.



It had been an extremely windy night and there were very large trees down all over the road up. It was an interesting drive to say the least - over, under and around some massive gum trees. It took us a little while to actually locate the snow - we had to walk up to the ski slope rather than the toboggan one. We got a good hour or so of slipping and sliding fun in before we got too cold and hungry. It was a fun morning and was a great trial of the kid's new ski gear!

1200 trees...

1200 trees seemed like a heck of a lot work, and Rich and Cath had come all the way back from the UK to plant them! We had a heap of people at Mashado all raring to go. I was a little worried when, by 11am on Saturday, not a single tree had gone in yet, but it soon became apparent that the setting out and prep-ing was the hard part. Once we started planting, things fairly zoomed along!

There was plenty of time for rest and relaxation and the kids had a ball as per usual. There were a few issues with Fred and Angus both believing the quad bikes was theirs, but all else went swimmingly!



We can't wait to get back up there and check on the trees...