Day 3 - Your Neighbourhood

We live in a small village in the Blue Mountains. We are surrounded by National Park...weatherboard cottages and trails like this one...

The Great Western Highway and railway line run through these villages and what were once commuter townships have since developed into tight communities with schools, churches, shopping centres and high quality coffee shops and restaurants.


We have lived here since we were married, our girls love it and we love the sense of community as well as being so close to nature. It's a healthy lifestyle, with walking tracks at our doorstep, as well as aquatic centres with excellent facilities and sporting opportunities for our children.

The wildlife is just beautiful, in the past month, we have had two wallabies, one kangaroo, a stork, a turtle and a black snake visit us...all coming within metres of our house (needless to say I wasn't all that keen on the snake, but it made its happy way out of our block eventually)


I wouldn't live anywhere else. We are blessed to live here.




And just for a bit of trivia - Dymphna Cusack and Florence James wrote "Come in Spinner" whilst renting a cottage in this village in the 1940's...they hired a "local" woman to run their errands and do some housekeeping for them, her name was Kath Walker and under their guidance she eventually wrote her memoirs, which were published under the title "Caddie"...