Day 2 broken bucket conservation reserve ( exploring Wyperfield )

The morning sun had dawned on us ?warming the not so cold night early on.

The boys in their swags had risen before the parents and dashman had already put the kettle on for our morning cuppa ( a good start to our day ).

I arose reluctantly after my coffee was placed on the outside bench in the beautiful warmth of the sun.

Dressed for the most part we hooked into brekky around the fire a simple affair of wet bix.

After dishes we organised the kids into the schoolwork for the morning while I scouted the area for some more firewood which was scarce of any decent logs mostly just mallee scrub.

The mallee fowl was nowhere to be seen unfortunately as typically I had the camera in hand  haha .

The kids had moved onto nature studies organised by momma bear with a diary to suit and they studied the local plants and their habitat .

I ran some cable and installed a solar regulator to the newly installed solar panel on the front roof of the    Cruiser which feeds the secondary battery which powers the fridge and charge leads for all iPods iPhones and iPads we all use :(.

After ham and cheese toasted wraps we set off in to the Wyperfield national park and took a track down to china mans flat and chinamans well , a good 3 hour drive along very sandy sand dunes bumping along merrily but stopping to redo the my  bike which had bounced due to its shock absorber not being locket out.

The drive wasn't overly exciting but I was having fun .

Chinamans well is still accessible but is all fenced off with bird wire over the top but it still enable you to see to the bottom , funny isn't it I was always taught Chinese well were round as they believed dark spirits hid in the corner of square set holes and tunnels .

Once we were out of the park we went along a sealed dirt track through Netherby and Yanak where we right turned for camp after stopping for some decent sized firewood.

A simple meal of sausages , burgers and onion in bread filled the hole in our stomach which was soon to be turned over at finding Corinna had lost all of her wedding , engagement  and other rings whilst we were driving she had put on hand cream just before I adjusted the Nike on the roof and they lay in her lap as she inadvertently hopped out of the car to help Shahla go to the toilet where they no doubt fell onto the ground !!!!!.

This brought the night to a big standstill as all thought about the when where and why of it all.

There was no point going out in the dark to find them so reluctantly we will put it aside till first light and try to find the elusive needles in the haystack :(