Mammoth Cave, Janolan.

Over the weekend Hannah and her family headed to Janolan Caves and descended to the very bottom of the largest cave in NSW - Mammoth Cave. 

Mammoth Cave is not a part of the tourist caves and is quite illegal to go into! Illegal except if, as Hannah is, you're a member of a Speleological (Caving) Club. At the bottom of the cave flows the clearest river as has ever been, but it's very hard to get too with lots of tight squeezes and mazes of passage ways. Once Hannah went the wrong way with Gerrard (an adult) through a tiny little hole, then needed to come back again! I think she felt like Winnie the Pooh. Hannah needed some pulling!

At the underground river Hannah and the others had lunch, because it took all day to get in and then out again. Caiden was also there and another girl called Kate in red overalls.

Later Hannah also had special private access to Lucas Cave (a tourist cave) with the club, where we danced to Opera music! Some of these photos were taken by Hannah. 

Ask Hannah about the Possum that came into our hut and wouldn't go out again. The Possum bit Hannah's Dad's toe! They have sharp teeth!

Also ask Hannah about the storm when we were driving home in the car!

All of the weekends photos are here.

Kate and Caiden

Hannah only just fitted through some parts of the cave! Poor Dad!

At the bottom

You can continue - if you have scuba gear!

The Broken Column

A very real fossil embedded in the rock of (I think) a wallaby.

One of the fossils descendants.

Hannah's weekend

Hannah's cousins came to visit over the weekend and no photos or video was taken.

Hannah's cousins are Ellie, Kaarina and Esther and Aunty Heather and Uncle Jari.

Hannah's long coastal walk

This last weekend Hannah and her Dad - together with 2 other kids Issac & Fynn and Jason, Morton, Pete and Adam walked the 27km long Coastal Track of the Royal NP from Otford to Bundeena over two days. Hannah had a hoot! So did everyone else.

Besides doing lots of walking, Hannah did lots of swimming at beaches along the way and at crystal clear pure fresh water - water holes.

Here are some photos and video of this:

Anika, Anika, Anika!

Hannah loves Anika and is trying to tell many people about Anika. 

Anika lives in Jakarta with her brother Xavier and Father Dean. The three of them came to Australia in December and Hannah, her Dad and Dean, Xavier and Anika went canyoning in the Blue Mountains. 

Hannah often refers to the harness she needed to put on, and no doubt descending the waterfall at the end has left an impression on her. Here are some photos of that day and one photo of another day the five of us went surfing at 'The Farm'.

Christmas holidays

Hannah's holiday.

Hannah mostly did stuff close to home over Christmas and very few photos were taken of her. Here are some photos of Hannah, Caiden and Hannah's Dad walking from Kiama train station to Gerringong train station, about 14kms.

An unposed photo of Hannah trying to convey
something about how far we'd already walked?

Caiden offering Hannah moral support!

Hannah spent three days at Bawley Point with her Aunty Kim, Uncle Bruce and their children Paisley, Obi & Trinity.

Hannah also camped and spent 3 days at the Illawarra Folk Festival. Complete with ear muffs Hannah actually mostly enjoyed the festival.

It's worth asking Hannah about canoeing with Shae and Elme (Tallowa Dam) and about the massive storm complete with black twisted angry clouds and lightning galore. Hannah didn't like the storm, but loved living for two days on the water.

Now that school is back I'll get back onto Hannah's weekend updates.

Artistic water wheels

Hannah was walking with her family and two friends last Sunday in the Morton National Park when she happened upon these amazing little installations in the middle of nowhere. How delightful they were!