Bunya

Nov 2, 2016

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We went off to the Bunya Mountains for our second camping trip, courtesy of Flo's vigorous research and spontaneity once again.

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Bunya was much greener. We went on a 4h bushwalk through the forestry and around the periphery of one of the mountains and it seemed to me we might have entered Narnia; the beautifully lined walkway with silvery-brown tree trunks, canopied with branches and leaves that let a surplus of afternoon sun through.

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We set up camp at a lovely campsite with plentiful grassy space, a barbecue pit and a picnic table, it felt rather homey. The darkness of the night bestowed upon us a brilliant display of stars. We lay out a blue tarp on the ground and lay supine, fitting ourselves nicely like a jig-saw to enjoy the silence of the cool spring night, watch the twinkling of the stars and nibble on our barbecued banana-marshmallow-chocolate bombs.

"The only stars I see in the sky, they don't move me 'Cause they've all been dead for millions of years, They're just light diffusing"

Someone mentioned something to that effect. It had never occurred to me, that perhaps some stars were no longer existent, but simply seemed to be because the light they emitted was still travelling millions of light years to the earth. That somehow felt rather sad.