First Full Day In the Crystal Waters

So today was our first full day here at the Crystal waters. So everybody met up for brekky at 7:30 in the morning. Everyone came to breakfast to find out that Zelynne went to the hospital cause she fell in the morning when she went with others to find the Platypus. And later on she comes back 9 stitches deep. Well anyways, after brekky we headed up the hill to the Eco-Center where Max gave us a little semi-lecture explaining the background of the Eco-Center for the first part of the lecture. Then, after the first part we took a little break for some “morning tea”. Had tea the way the British would have it by throwing in some milk. We fancy. On top of that I threw in some of Max’s homemade honey. It was quite wonderful. Nom nom nom. After the break Max put us into groups and sent us out to different locations to grab different types of plants, flowers, leaves, etc. and got into the permaculture part by explaining how everything was related. Once we finished with the semi-lecture was lunchtime. Lunch here is quite different, salad and bread was basically it. Once we finished up with lunch we got a little break to prepare for our little walk that ended up being a trek. Went on to tour all of East Crystal Waters. Some of the more interesting things on this hike were when we saw Max’s `cows and picked some potatoes. Max’s cows were well disciplined compared to some other resident’s cows. For instances some other persons cows all went over the fence into Max’s property towards us. Later on those cows owner came over and struggled to get them back into his part of the land. Most of us left while he was attempting to do that since it was just about dinnertime. Dinner was so delicious. Trudi made us tons of Spaghetti. Everybody basically ate way too much. I for sure did. I was so full I almost couldn’t eat dessert, just couldn’t pass on that. I knew I was going regret it since we were going on a night walk after dinner. The night was basically the same as the walk earlier in the day, but just a litter scarier since we did most of the walk in pure darkness most of the time. We did this so we get a feel of a more natural wilderness feeling since if the lights were on we would have probably scared most of the wild away.