20 September, 2025 09:58

In the end, it turned out a warm night and very nice, mostly uninterrupted sleep.

It’s scary checking eyesight first thing, worried about further bleeding or worse: a bleed in the right eye which would leave me in life-threatening trouble.

But the half a percent improvement continues, the left eye also loosening the extreme dark grip in its new willow branches.

Rain also, through the night. Lovely, actually.

The big challenge since daylight is the dangerous westerly wind. I’m not game to drive in it. Here again tomorrow apparently but I’ll have to risk it then to get food.

Two overnighters, one still here plus the permanent who’s also gone.

Soon I guess I’ll try for a shower. I should use the tent but it would probably be more of a nuisance, blown around, squashed.

Before too long lunch visitors will arrive.

Current view:

UPDATE 12.25PM

Well that was frenetic. Had a shower in very cramped space and horrible mad wind that blew out the jet burner five times, with people coming and going in various ways. Had to do it to wash the eyes.

Hand held, because of the wind and need to hurry. Not pleasant, except now afterwards sitting in a warm shelter, the van. And hiding away, but I’m sure its going to be okay, without complaints.

Frenetic and stressful but done and good, the shower gear packed away.

That’s the log I stood on, and the ants nest next to it and the van which I didn’t disturb.

UPDATE 2.28PM

Back from a 65 minute walk from the rest area directly up the hill to the A.C.T. N.S.W. border, on the bush track that I read was once a racetrack, but what kind of race I don’t know, or whether it was up or downhill.

Had to get exercise and rest the eyes with bushland sight.

On the bottom left (mobile view) is the top of the hill and border. Also wombat hole, old rusted guard rails, and bitumen and concrete track having grown lichen.