Jalman Meadows cont..

On Saturday we drove a short distance up river, and then took a short walk to the river bank. It was warm and sunny and Orlo was in his element throwing stones into the river. Grandad found a fallen tree trunk to sit on and settled into his book, which he just happened to have in one of his many pockets! Eventually we dragged Orlo away from the river and moved a very short distance to some gravel/river sand where he wanted to make holes. We were very happy to let him play, he doesn't get much opportunity to play in the dirt in the city.

After lunch Amanda went off for a ride on her mountain bike and we were left in charge! Orlo wasn't too happy to begin with but we made fora small steam we had seen the day before and he was soon very busy building a dam with his Grandad. We spent a couple hours there and then walked back up to the camp. On the way we watched the local herders bringing their stock back home for the night, lassoing some cattle, rounding up the goats, the calves being let out to find their mothers. Grandad towed Orlo up the hill with his stick and Amanda followed soon after.

A good day was had by all. The journey back will follow in the next blog...