The Animal Farm at Maleny - by Nell

19^th – 22^nd Dec 2008 (Maleny, Queensland)

I went to Brisbane for my December’s holiday. First, we went to a farm stay in Maleny, it is a little town on a hill. Inside the cabin was dark and smelly, there were even thousands of flies! My sister and I slept together in a queen size bed, my parents slept in a single bed each because I told them so as ….I RULE AND I AM THE BOSS!

The next day, I was very excited because there were farm activities to participate in! First, we milked the cow but the udder was kind of rubbery. You just need to squeeze gentle and slide your hand while you squeeze. We get to carry the chicks! They were so soft, fluffy, cute and cuddly.

We took the horse and tractor ride. Every time I led the horse to the field, it will start to much and crunch on the grass!

We had a ride on a tractor but by the time we went to the meeting point, we were late for the tractor ride! So, we had to run and we managed to get onto the tractor. The tractor ride goes thru a large hilly field, on the way we stop to feed the cows.

On the way back to the farm, the tractor RAN OUT OF GAS! On the day we left Maleny, we shouted “Good Bye Maleny!!!” Then we drove off to our next destination, The Gold Coast.

Old Holiday Vids - still good...

Aotearoa New Zealand

After months of delay... finally i managed to put some time together to edit our NZ video. Plowing through over 10 hours of shots....

Enjoy!

Moeraki Boulders

2007 Dec 17th

MOERAKI BOULDERS – between Dunedin to Mt Cook

Facts: - The Moeraki Boulders are large perfect round stones that are lying around the sandy beaches. Believed to be formed in ancient sea floor sediments thru a process similar to the formation of oyster pearls, where layers of fossil shell, bone fragment, or piece of wood cover a central nucleus core. Which grew into perfectly spherical shapes up to three metres in diameter.

WEIRD ENCOUNTER at Moeraki Boulders

Nell hatched!


Liz became a NINJA

The THREE Apostles

The one that Old Man is in - got STUCKED

Treasure FOUND by Nell – u think it's worth something? Eh?

Piebald World

Yes.. we thought the trip would be incomplete without a pic of NZ's mascot...

A Friesian cow... or was it supposed to be Kiwi?

We were traveling at 115kmph from Te Anau heading to Dunedin, then old lady hollered: "STOP! I need to snap pics of those cows!"

I had a split second glance up the the rear view mirror, no car, floored the break, kids stuck to the back of our seats for 4 secs before falling to the floor.

Then OL commented: "eh... those cows not are looking this direction-leh... "

So i honked, there you go... Picture Perfect!