Kondillila Falls

The weather cleared up a little today.  Kondillila is an aboriginal name for (you will never guess) - Running Water!  These falls are very close to Ro and Pa's unit, near Maleny.  Ryan's mob most likely visited this place too, but if they haven't then they should.  It was a great walk down to the bottom of the valley and an even better walk back up - huffing and puffing so much I could feel the pounds melting off my hips. (Yeah right!!)  It was those leeches sucking blood - more like it.  Not me though...poor Alex got attacked by two blood suckers.  What drama!!!  Have never seen Alex walk so fast to get up to the top and to the car. 

Here are the fixes for leeches, but first NEVER pull it off otherwise its head gets stuck in your skin, then gets infected and you keep bleeding:
1. Burn it off.  Remember to pull it's backside off the skin before you put a match or gas lighter to it - otherwise - said attached human being does not trust Daddy to burn it off and keeps pulling his leg off just as the flame is getting closer.
2. Salt.  Shake salt over the head of the leech and you will never believe how quickly the leech falls off.  It does help however to carry salt with you when walking in leech infested areas.  When no salt is available, then use method number 1.  If no flame is available then only alternative is number 3.
3. Yank head out.  Only use this as a last resort as the head will break off and you can't get it out unless you go to the hospital.  Thank heavens we had access to solution number 1!!!!

Alright Paul now wants to add another fix so here is number 4 and 5!

4. Wait.  Wait till the leech has its fill of blood and then falls off.  Not a pretty sight for the faint hearted as I am told they can swell quite BIG!!!
5. Kerosense or Metho.  If you have access to either - pour on top of leech and it will fall off - works the same as Salt.


Now for the weather.  It was a nice overcast day for walking and it didn't rain even once.  The sun came out in the afternoon and Alex pleaded to either go fishing or get Sushi!  He got neither - poor little deprived kid.  On the bright side - the alarm clock has been set for 6am in order to catch the tide at 7am.  Hope it doesn't rain in the morning and hope he catches a fish!

The falls from half way down the valley.

Blood filled leech