Russ we had the most memorable time thank you so much! Although I fear we may have left the cottage a little smokey after the last morning because I was on fire stoking duty. Only got a peewee (magpie lark) on the wildlife camera at the dam in the morning (and the lens was slightly frosted over with the frost so not a good quality photo 😊).
I’m not sure I really understood the electric boost button (only pushed it once because mum wanted a shower in the morning after we arrived and she was concerned … and at that stage I hadn’t noticed the digital temperature display on the wall – I checked every now and then after that and it never got out of the high 60s. we didn’t have baths and had great sunny weather so that might explain it). No issues at all with cold water.
If it means anything to you … after I pushed the electric boost I think the lights on both switches stayed on (not sure whether that means the electric boost was stuck on?)
You have an absolutely amazing property, which I would love to own and explore until I die! The boys (and I ) are excited to come back and just walk the trails in your property (including the creek on your northern and western boundary, which I didn’t get to and am certain they’d be old enough to do in a day, so long as I pack lots of food for them 😊).
I loved your booklet listing the animals found in your 2006 ecological survey (GREATER GLIDER is now endangered nationally under the environment protection and biodiversity conservation act – you could highlight that as a note on your info. They need large hollows in old trees – like powerful owl does – but they need them connected to areas of forest so they can glide between. Loads of their habitat (like koala) and their old growth trees that form their nest hollows got destroyed in the bushfires of 2019/20 (but prior to that it was land clearing for development on the eastern seaboard). Yellow bellied gliders are big like them too (and feed on sap, making V shaped incisions in trees… just like squirrel gliders). We found LOADS of big old trees with hollows and I am certain there were feed scars from the yellow bellied glider in a few of the eucalypts there! AMAZING!!! Check this fact sheet https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/resources/nature/landholderNotes03YellowBelliedGlider.pdf
Anyway … I hope we didn’t “break” anything – we plan to revisit again so please let us know if you had any issues!
(PS … I had no idea there were SO MANY different species of daffodils!!!)
