A 4wding Trip to the snow

Well yes your first question might be "so wheres the snow?". I can tell you where it isn't. It isn't where we went last weekend. The kids were rather disappointed by the whole affair, they were all kitted out and had removed the wheels from their skateboards and packed in the backboards ready for some fun...damn that global warming!!! What we did find was plenty of mud, the most beautiful forest in the Yarra Ranges (and of course new fungi!!!). Not to mention an enforced lunch break at a fallen tree which proved somewhat difficult to conquer. We got there in the end, hopefully not permanent damage has been done.

First they tried to move the tree...that didn't work.
While all this was very interesting (not) I went bush in search for fungi. It was so beautiful in the forest, I would have been perfectly happy to be left there for all of the day.

The trees were tall and beautiful.

I found this fungi growing on a tree.

I'm sure we were stuck for what seemed like hours... and disappointingly we found no snow what so ever, but we did find a nice stream to stop at on the way home to cook snags for dinner and a cuppa tea. Good day regardless.

Lesson for the day: don't ever tell the kids we are going to the snow, until we are certain that we can acctually see snow.