Having had a couple of changes to the staff at The Atrium Cafe (where I work), Janie (the owner) invited us to go with her on a yoga retreat...somewhere out of Launceston. The idea being we could get to know each other a bit better, and have some R&R. The others were unable to go, but Friday 12th March saw Janie and I leaving the cafe a little early to drive to the retreat.
It was nice to be heading out of town and seeing another part of Tasmania. Unfortunately for me the weekend didn't start off so restful, within the first few seconds of arriving at the location of the retreat (a lovely farm over near a mountain range I've forgotten the name of!) I managed to stand in the middle of a nest of Jack Jumper Ants. Ants...how bad could it be you say? Well these ants, probably about 1.5cm in length (so much bigger than te ants in NZ) are also biting ants...and not bits like mosquitos or sandflies...but nasty stingy bites that can result in death! Luckily for me I didnt react, but some people have anaphylactic reactions to their bites, and it seems they haven't sorted a reliable anti-venom. For me they were very sore, and gave me a fright...welcome to Australian Wildlife! Luckily the lady running the yoga retreat was on hand with Thyme Oil (a natural remedy for the bites) which worked wonders, and by the next day my toe was only slightly tender when touched.
The weekend was a nice break, a chance to meet some new people and get out of the city. Besides meeting the jack jumpers, I also got to see an echidna (like a hedgehog!), and listen to the kookaburras (they make crazy noises!). Here are a few photos of the farm.
The photo on the left is of the yoga studio - it is built of straw bales.
On the way home, we stopped at Christmas Hills Raspberry farm...they do the best raspberry baked cheesecake :)
4 comments:
Sounds like fun! And cute little building too.
...how was the team-building and yoga though? ;-)
xx
love the straw bale building, Ben wants to build one of them some day. Sounds like life is good.... D
did you really post that at 2.49am???
Team building & yoga was great...though didnt fix my back like I had hoped!
and Janie no I didnt post it then...forgot to change the time!
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