Big Nature Weekend

We are enjoying some really beautiful weather in Western Australia at the moment. The last week as been fantastic with sunshine, low 70's in temps, and more sunshine. We like being out on these beautiful days. Sometimes though, I'm just not too creative with our destinations. Luckily, our friends are!

On Saturday morning, we met up with 3 other families at John Forrest National Park. Our friend Judit had read about a great walk up to a waterfall so we all packed lunches, sweaters, and hats and headed out to the Australian bush. It was a really beautiful place.C enjoyed the ride in the backpack, getting to walk around a couple of times and join his pals on the ground.

D was thrilled to spend the morning with some of her best friends.

The waterfall was pretty and before long our whole group had climbed their way out onto the rocks, just beside the falls. The kids had so much fun climbing the rocks. Below are T and C perched on the little cliff.

Here are the 16 of us. Took 3 tries with the camera timers but we got right!On Sunday, we joined other volunteers at Rosalie Park in Subiaco to plant native flora in honor of Tree Day. There were several of T's co-workers there as well. Upon arrival, I was skeptical of how productive I could actually be while keeping track of 2 little kids. But it was a really fun morning for all of us.

The people organizing had set out hundreds of plants in plastic pots. They gave a quick explanation of what to do, and we all set to work. At first there weren't many volunteers, but lots more arrived a short time later and we all finished the job in just under 2 hours.
T got the job of digging the holes. D used her kid-sized tools to sprinkle "Fairy Dust" (soil conditioner) in each hole.I buried the plants and C stacked up the empties. And knocked them down. And stacked them up again. And so on. The after photo.

We plan to visit Rosalie Park from time to time to see how our native garden is growing. And D has plans to water them all with her watering can.