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• Location: A farm half-way between Gunning and Collector
• Hanging out with: Steve and Emma
• Connection: We met Steve through our friends Pete and Kia (best to remember those names as our tour of NSW is essentially based around visiting Pete and Kia’s friends and family, with the exception of our Sydney friends/family)
• Weather: -7°C the night we arrived

We departed Melbourne around midday on Friday 3^rd July. Victoria didn’t really get much of a look-in, aside from a brief stop in Wodonga to visit Graeme’s godparents, Aunty Joy and Uncle Tony.

First destination, Carmarthan (did I spell that correctly??), Steve and Emma’s property half-way between Gunning and Collector. And as I predicted, Graeme did not sleep in the camper on the first night as he said he would, which is lucky because is got to -7 degrees that night.

A touch of frost

Steve and Emma work full-time in Canberra, plus run their farm, plus expecting a baby in August! That’s an awful lot on their plate so we were happy to help out around the farm. We had some “fun” weeding the paddocks and burning off unwanted plant material which meant a few bonfires to warm us up.

Tyson has taken to farm life like a duck to water, riding on the back of utes and meeting cows, horses and chooks for the first time with out causing too much trouble.

And no visit to Collector is complete without having a meal at the local pub. It was probably about 5 degrees inside the pub but the publican clearly thought it was warm enough since he was walking around in shorts, thongs (flip flops) and T-shirt and didn’t feel it was necessary to get the fire going in the dinning room.