Last week in Billen Cliffs

Some pictures from our last week at Billen Cliffs...

 

 

A day out in Nimbin - Nahlia on the slide with Ulf and having a goat's milk ice cream with Emma.

 

A wallaby in the pumpkin patch.

 

The best tasting roast vegetables ever!.... cooked in the camp oven.

 

Our 'camp'.

Wallaby Creek, Urbenville

We farewelled our hosts at Billen Cliffs last week and headed out to Urbenville, west of Kyogle, to 500 acres of bush, with a freshwater creek running through it.  Beef and dairy cattle, as well as some horses, chickens and ducks graze on the land.  Our hosts here are building an extension on their house using timber milled from their own land.  Ulf has been helping with the building, while Nahlia and I have been spending a little time in the vegetable garden.  Our hosts are a beautiful family with three children, 9 years, 5 years and 2 years old, who are all involved in and love their farm life.  Life has slowed down for us here, and we are thoroughly enjoying the beautiful surrounds, bathing in the creek, family time together, Ulf whittling, Emma hand-sewing, an abundance of home-grown eggs, freshly baked bread and cheese, cooking over a campfire every night, and sharing work and life with some great people.

Billen Cliffs in Rock Valley

 Donny backing up the caravan to our 'spot' on his little tractor.

Nahlia's bathtub in a bucket!

Playing with Joy, 10yrs.

 Feeding the chickens - 'alle' - 'empty', she says.

 A little tractor for a little farmgirl!

 Nahila loves to climb the rock steps... here the guys are building the house in the background - Donny, our wwoof host and Brett, another wwoofer.

One of the Billen Cliffs, behind the house.

Ulf removing old banana trees.

Emma hanging out the washing, showing the outdoor shower cubicle to the right.

 Cooking beef soup stock on the open fire.

Our little climber!

We arrived at Billen Cliffs, a community in Rock Valley, NSW, last Sunday, to the home of Donny, Karen and Joy.  We've really enjoyed our first week here - Ulf has been doing different jobs around the house like brushcutting, thinning the banana trees out, removing a radiator and manifold from an old car; and Emma has been cooking three meals a day for 6 people. They have a very relaxed and friendly atmosphere here, with drumming in the evenings, coffee at the community coffee club on Saturdays, work-days finish at 3 or 4 pm and weekends are free.  We will likely be here for another three weeks before moving north again, hopefully to a wwoof host near to Emma's hometown, Gatton.