I’m getting in first!!

Ok my turn!! I have not posted for a while as Craig usually gets up earlier than the rest of us (surprising I know) and sits quietly posting about the previous days adventures. The only way I can post about what we have ben up to is if I do it now before he does tomorrow morning. So instead of reading my book tonight, which is getting really good I might add, I have decided to let you know about our day today at Kalbarri.
Well Anth was right, it’s lovely here.
I will start by addressing all the green thumbs and their questions about the wild flowers. We have seen some lovely colours.. They are not as widely scattered around as I expected but they are around. Maybe I expected to see more but they are lovely none the less.

We started our day by visiting the gorges. It was hot hot hot. The first look out was only a few hundred metres from the car park and by the time we came back we were fighting off the flies (you were right Jude) and really thirsty.

We moved to the next stop which was Natures Window. This was really worth the long trek over very scary narrow ledges (especially with little ones) but when we finally got there we sat for a long time just taking in the view.

We then started the long trek back to the car and again filled up on loads of cold water (bless that car fridge that often leaves us with a flat battery!!!)

After this we thought it might be time to have a swim, so back to the caravan to put bathers on and over the road we headed to the estuary. When we got there, there was a hut that rented out boats. Craig being the boat lover that he is (although these little putters are probably not his idea of a boating adventure) thought we needed to have a go.

Each child had a chance to have a steer and loved every minute of it. Their genuine smiles say it all.

After our leisurely ride we headed back to have a swim and the kids and Craig spent some time making the traditional Morton castle.

By then everyone had worked up an amazing appetite and we went back to the van for a BBQ. It’s fair to say that the guilts got me today and I was desperate to feed everyone some good wholesome food. So I plated up cucumber, capsicum, carrot, snow peas and corn (stole that from you Mrs Bates) which was yummo while Craig cooked the chops and snags which we all polished off. I felt much better after this as I am sure you cannot survive on nuggets and chips alone (although recently, my kids have given it a red hot go).

We will push off again tomorrow and see where the road takes us – after seeing the pelicans being fed across the road tomorrow morning of course. We didn’t quite make it out the door in time this morning!!