We spent another day on the beach yesterday, heading down after breakfast for a snorkel.
Zac is getting a lot more confident and I was able to take him right out onto the reef to see a lot more fish. His favorites where the sea cucumbers and the giant clams. I showed him how if you duck dived down to the clam and waved your hand they would close then reopen, and he spent as much time as possible doing that to every giant clam he could find!!
Tara is also loving her mask, although we ditched the snokel for the moment. She spent as much time as ever on the edge of the reef diving under and looking at the fish. She would pop up, take a quick breath and be straight back under again…. think I have a couple of new divers in the makings here.
Jess is not so confident and is happy to just play in the shallows, although even Fi is liking floating out on the reef for a look.
Now even though we are doing our best to screen up, everyone is looking a little pink at the moment, so we headed back to the van around lunch time and spent a few hours sitting and playing in the shade.
I must have been bored, as I actually took the time to wash the van!!! Don’t worry Andrew, I didn’t pull the light fittings out and clean them… but I did get a lot of the red Norseman dust off. Turns our the van is white after all!! Looks a hell of a lot better, although I can see I will have my work cut out for me when I get back and give it a real clean. At least at home I will have the high pressure hose to help!!
We returned to the beach in the late afternoon for another swim, and Zac and I must have spent a good hour or two right out on the reef. The strong winds returned in the afternoon, so by the time we got out of the water, Fi had taken the (frozen) girls back for a hot shower, and the only sign they were there was our thongs sitting in the sand!!
Today, Zac and I are going for an adventure, riding a quad bike a couple of hours south on the beach to see turtles and do some snorkeling. Should be great fun and we are both really looking forward to it. I just wish this wind would back off a bit, but looks like it will be here until Monday. We are still hoping to take the family out on a glass bottom boat and snorkelling tour tomorrow, but we will see how we go with the wind.
It occurred to us yesterday that the fun part of our trip is almost over, and sometime before the middle of next week we will have to point south east again and head home. We have had such a good time that it really has gone too fast.
