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Christmas Day Bush Walk Down Under In Australia

3,360 views · Published 1 January 2014 · 10:37 · Indexed 12 November 2026

Channel: The Do It Yourself World · 2014 · Howto & Style

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Christmas day felt surreal due to the heat and green color of everything all around as compared to my home full of snow and ice. I led a group of kids on a bush walk up an old logging trail.

Everyone else went off to do various things. All the shops were closed so I did not want to go to town. That left me and some of the older kids behind so we headed off on an old logging trail into the mountains near the property where I am staying.

Up near the top there are amazing scenes of the meadow below. The trees are quite huge in Australia. I cannot imagine cutting one of these giants down but somehow loggers do it all the time.

I found a few olive trees with fully ripe olives ready for the harvest. I have looked online and found that olives are actually purple in nature when ripe. They are turned black before canning through a chemical process. You cannot eat olives straight off the tree or you can get sick. They must be cured in a salt brine solution. I might try this myself.

I found a nice piece of red colored hard wood on the path which I kept. I hope to make the handle for my lawn mower blade knife with it.

It was a strange way to spend Christmas in the green, but it was a good day.

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