Patience with bees is essential. Bees will do what bees do when they are good and ready. We (humans) often try and force things to happen the way we want them to happen and it often ends in tears.
Nature has been doing this stuff for 10's of thousands of years, they have worked out a system that works for them that ensures their survival.
I always say to new beekeepers "There is only one real reason to keep bees, and that is because they are fascinating. If you just want honey, make friends with a beekeeper".
With that in mind it is important to understand what a hive is all about and why they they do the things they do.
In nature bees find a home that will give them shelter from the elements and protection from predators. Their only aim is survival of the colony, to do this they collect nectar and pollen. They collect enough not only for the following winter but insurance stores as well, if all goes well and they run out of room in their current home a decision is made to expand the colony and raise another queen to swarm with and start again. The existing colony remains till their queen ages and is no longer able to ensure the viability of the colony so they will raise another queen to replace her and so the cycle continues.
I can't stress how important it is to try understand how things work in nature and then you can start to manage your bees in conjunction with how they would do it themselves. It just makes things easier if you look at beekeeping from the larger viewpoint rather than "I have a hive where is my honey?". Work with the bees and help them, this is management that will benefit you and the bees.
By all means read all you can and learn from the many great books written about beekeeping but conditions vary all over the world, keep your bees according to your climate and resources (nectar, pollen supplies), learn what gums or trees are in your area, when they normally flower and what time of year after a warm stretch, immediately after rain etc. When you start to learn these things you will notice when things change as they seem to be often doing with our changing climate, plants that normally flower in October flowering in August. You become much more aware of our environment. Anyway that is all up to you if you are interested in it.
Your hive should do well as you look to be pretty close to the national park and all the resources that are in there.
Good luck.