We have been over in Freshwater most of this year caring for our daughter who has bowel and lung cancer, but recovering well after a number of operations and superb treatment at St Vincents. We went out to Bathurst recently, an interesting track to drive around, and then on to Orange and Mudgee. There were quite incredible dust storms, a very parched landscape, apparently with no rain for three years.The smoke in the air here on the Northern Beaches has been thick, blocking out the sun.
