Howdy! With the craziness of the past three days it is nice to have something positive to blog about. Due to my sore wrist we decided it would be best not to work in the community garden. On hearing that we wouldn’t be there Kavanah offered us two tickets to the Shakori Hills Festival. So Sal and I went along and spent most of yesterday surrounded by hippies and having a good time listening to great music.
Before I get into those pictures however we should probably have some pictures of the drought. We STILL haven’t had any rain to speak of and pretty much every county in the state is under draconian water restrictions. The picture below is me next to the main dam that supplies us with water. As you can see it is about 2 meters below normal levels.
These pictures are from the Shakori Hills Festival. I realize this first picture is of a car park but it gives you some idea of what the area looks like. Getting back to the drought, the paddocks all looked distinctly Australian (i.e dry, dead and dusty).
One nice thing about the festival was the huge number of children there. This is Sal with one little friend we made.
There was a diversity of good music on all the stages, although a lot of it involved either a fiddle, double base, guitar, mandolin and/or banjo.
Blogger has just given the option of uploading videos to the site, so below will hopefully be a video of some bits of the festival. The highlight of the festival for us was the band Scythian. Their music is a bit hard to describe but you can see it in the video.
Blogger has just given the option of uploading videos to the site, so below will hopefully be a video of some bits of the festival. The highlight of the festival for us was the band Scythian. Their music is a bit hard to describe but you can see it in the video.
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