Sunday, December 23 Grampians

      We spent Sunday in the Grampians, a small mountain range in south western Victoria.  We'd gotten a nice National Park campground the day before and planned to stay two nights, which is a luxury that eliminates an unloading and unpacking of the roof bundle.  Our site was big and roomy, with many visiting kangaroos and birds.

Home for two nights

     We spent the day hiking around the mountains.  It felt good to get a vigorous leg stretching after a couple days of driving through the outback.

Walking through a canyon

Dan - "I like your new hat, Kelly"
Kelly - "Yours looks mighty fine too, Dan"

How all the new hats look from the sun's point of view

Smile, pardner

Kelly in her signature, 'I've climbed to the top of some high place and
now I'm scaring everyone' pose

Ryan getting ready to pose on his own precipice

Of course Diana has to get in on the action.  Where do you think
they all get their fear of heights from?  

     
    After dinner Kristy played her ukulele, the other kids and Diana read, and I sat watching birds snatching bugs out of the cool evening air.