Gayatri tour

Arial view

gayatri tour

Gayatri is situated in the Cooloola hills .
This aerial photo was taken1985.
The Cedar Pocket Dam was built in 84.
the highlighted piece is the lower part of the land.

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plan of the land

Gayatri's hall, 8 by 8 m, with a wooden floor.


One of the hall's doors leads to the seminar kitchen and dining hall. At the other end is					another kitchen


The Boomerang building contains 8 bedrooms.



Toilets and showers			Horst+Moni's House	Family house	Geli's house


	Ancient Goddesses young Devas				frogs are safe in our greywater tank
	Baby Jungle		Views from the top
	A torrent when it is raining a lot		and if it pours for too long we are cut off from the outside world for a day or so	and this is what it looked like when we began
	Young bushrangers being supervised doing manual weed control. The supervisor is satisfied		After a hard days' work they contemplate the option of a boat ride on the Cedar Pocket Dam
or may be just on Gayatri's big dam			off for a cool bath in the Cedar Pocket Dam	or in the water hole

	two master carvers at work		now Arthus the guardian is put up		three cheerful helpers tidying up after storm damage

	Wilhelm's fire place. Under strict supervision only!		the young rangers are taking lessons in riding on Harry the faithful	They reckon they should be able to do it on smooth ground by now
	will it work?		what Thomas puts together, is always working		for heaven's sake these Mandalas can amount to a task

	Geli in her nursery		Theresa in a cool spot		the baby jungle has turned into into a nice hiding place

	19 '77, the first camp and the first inspection of the land	high up on the mountain in 1977 only a few trees offer some shade this may be the place for the future monastery			the first abode, materials all free, from the dump
	a first track has been dozed along the contours, now things can be taken up the mountain		the first nursery, strengthening the little ones for their future life		this is the track now

	30 years ago trees and babies were tiny.	now they smile down on the ones that grew them		A forest just takes time. strange thing this patience to let something grow in its own time.
	placing the posts for a big shade cloth which will help the baby jungle to grow. To the right the current state of affairs			Here I see big nuttrees in my mind's eye. Now no imagination is required any more
Pondering on the design of the first house		and up it grows		and so do child and chaos
at last, friends and helpers		Fritz the owner builder		and here some years later

The retreat's toilet building is done. The hall is still a bit of a daunting project		And a few rocks still need to be rolled around.			A well, the hall is nearly done. Thomas is dancing on the roof.