Friday 12 September
Another beautiful day so I contacted the homestead by radio and invited myself to morning tea . Went ashore and headed up the track that is called the long track. The first 11/2 klms is through scrub mostly going uphill, then a clearing is reached with lovely views to the south. The country then changes to rainforest with some big trees with fantastic root systems, another 11/2 klms and you arrive at the homestead. John, Cath, and Ernst, warmly welcomed me and my gifts of some ripe avocados and chocolate biscuits were appreciated particularly the biscuits .I was immediately put to work helping make bee hive boxes, not that I was much help. Cath is a cousin of Andrew Martin who lived there for many years . She and her husband John have only been on the island for about 5 weeks after winning the island back from a bloke who swindled the island from Andrew. He left it in a shocking mess on what it had once been, however they have the energy end vision to restore it to its formers glory. Life is so different living on an isolated island. Ernst was also making bread for tomorrow, sugar in the brew was a bowl of bees wax with the honey spooned out of the bottom. I left after lunch with John who took me down the short track, which is very steep; on the way, he showed me the little cove where the boatshed is their little motor boat sits. John and I went out and had a bash at
the fish but didn’t hook any up.
Another beautiful day so I contacted the homestead by radio and invited myself to morning tea . Went ashore and headed up the track that is called the long track. The first 11/2 klms is through scrub mostly going uphill, then a clearing is reached with lovely views to the south. The country then changes to rainforest with some big trees with fantastic root systems, another 11/2 klms and you arrive at the homestead. John, Cath, and Ernst, warmly welcomed me and my gifts of some ripe avocados and chocolate biscuits were appreciated particularly the biscuits .I was immediately put to work helping make bee hive boxes, not that I was much help. Cath is a cousin of Andrew Martin who lived there for many years . She and her husband John have only been on the island for about 5 weeks after winning the island back from a bloke who swindled the island from Andrew. He left it in a shocking mess on what it had once been, however they have the energy end vision to restore it to its formers glory. Life is so different living on an isolated island. Ernst was also making bread for tomorrow, sugar in the brew was a bowl of bees wax with the honey spooned out of the bottom. I left after lunch with John who took me down the short track, which is very steep; on the way, he showed me the little cove where the boatshed is their little motor boat sits. John and I went out and had a bash at
the fish but didn’t hook any up.
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