Easter at Mt. Beauty

Over the Easter weekend we were up at the holiday house at Mt. Beauty. We had amazingly beautiful weather during the day and really exciting lightning storms at night. Here are some pictures of our weekend.

The holiday house and our new car

our noisy neighbors, the cockatoos

With all the bushfires lately the fire department is desperate for some new recruits - seen here on their first outing.

Gold Detecting - Eureka we haven't found anything!

We spent a weekend away with Cam's parents in a little town called Lanacoorie looking for gold. Cam's dad bought a gold detector (with our inheritance) and he's set on finding the "big one". Cam got his miner's right license and went to work with John. They detected, dug, sifted, and in the end didn't find anything. I spent a lot of time with Cam's mom sitting and reading.

Getting geared up

cheap labor...

I found lots of quartz

an old camp from the late 1800s

Careful Trish! Don't fall down there...

hopefully these are kangaroo bones

the lake near our cabin - ahh the serenity