One of the many hemp shops in Nimbin
Down down down the narrow windy road heading away from Mount Nardi. Heading towards the famed town of Nimbin. Let’s see, 7+5 km equals 12 km. Yay, she can add. Doesn’t take long to get there. It is a small colourful place and almost has a feel like an old cowboy town out in the boonies. She parks the car and gets out. Something sticky is on her foot. She looks down and there is a bunch of blood. “What on earth …?” she says. She doesn’t recall cutting it or even bumping up against anything. She takes off her sandal and exams the blood. Ahhh, she figures it out, it had been a leech that had ultimately clamped on and then had become squashed in her sandal. But the little sucker, literally, had made a small wound where now blood continued to flow out. The little buggers release an anesthetic so that you don’t feel them and also an enzyme which stops blood clotting. So as to not look like she’s walking injured, besides it doesn’t hurt, she washs it off and keeps wiping up the blood, but it won’t stop bleeding because of the enzyme. Finally after about 10 minutes of this, she wraps up the toe in kleenex and pops her shoe back on, otherwise this would never end. She also spots the leech on the car floor so she flicks it to the ground and squashes it. “Take that you little F#%$^$&#”
Colourful quaint Nimbin
She goes for a quick tour of Nimbin. It is small and there are lots of hemp/head shops. She can tell that if she were to want it, she could likely hook herself up with some weed. But she’s not interested. Lots of weed worshipers here though she can tell. Lots of loiterers too. She spots another one of those trucks with what she thought was some speaker/horn thing on them.
Nope it's not a horn or spotlight.
She had seen them from the day she arrived in Australia and thought they were some addition to a truck like a spotlight or swag horn or something. She finally found out what they were. They are an air pipe so that the vehicle is able to drive through deep water and not cease the engine because this high pipe continues to draw air into the engine so it does not get flooded. So you see, flooding in Australia and needing to drive through deep water is a common enough occurence that people have these things on their trucks. Pretty interesting. She had not seen them anywhere else. Done with Nimbin now and time to go back “home”. Dogs are thirsty.
Funky rocky ancient outcropping.