Today was an enjoyable day. I got up at around 9am, had a deliciopus meal of home cooked bacon and eggs and prepared to travel to the Chocolate Mill which, like mostly every business here, didn’t open until 10am. The Chocolate Mill, for serious  chocoholics – definitely me. Chris and I spent around $40 on chocolates and on the way back to Kyneton, stopped at the Black Hill Nature Reserve to walk off breakfast. Luckily this is early on my trip, because I found a major flaw in my Garmin Forerunner 15 watch (which measures steps, kilometres, calories and tells the time). The walk was great, although I was very tired at the end. By that time, my watch told me that I had walked 5.3 kilometres and burnt off 1340 calories. It would be obvious to most people that walking 5km would burn off at least 2600 calories, so I have decided the watch is flawed and to fix it I just double the amount of calories that it tells me I have used up, which is much more real.

When we got back, we sat out in the back yard of the apartment we are staying at, and took photos of the flowers and insects. Below is one of them.

After lunch I lay down for a couple of hours and listened to a couple of lessons from The Great Courses collection. Then we planned to go out tonight to take photos of the Super Moon – whilst being disturbed by the major cloud cover and hoping it would go away. We ended up having dinner just down the road at a place called Mr Carsisi. The food was delicious and filling, although I hadn’t gotten over last night’s meal. My entree of stuffed vine leaves followed by a main of beef was very tender with tasty chutney, and Chris enjoyed his Haloumi, followed by roasted walnut crusted lamb cutlets. Chris had a dessert of petit fours which were actually petit fives.

Then we popped down the road a bit to find a good spot to take a photo of the moon. Sadly the clouds were very heavy, so didn’t do very well. I have included the best of a bad lot below (no photo editing, which may clean it up a bit but is not going to make it a good photo).

So back to the  apartment to update my blog and head off to bed. Before we went out, I turned on the reverse cycle split system in the rooms to heat them up whilst we were out. I had one interesting realisation. Over here, the temperature was set to 24 degrees to heat up the room. In the Pilbara, we set the temperature to 25 or 26 degrees to cool down the room. I guess it’s all relative.