Well today we must say farewell to Coral Bay. We have had such a good time here the last week, snorkeling, spending time on the beach and seeing a lot of wild life. But as they say, All good things must come to an end, and the fact is we are out of Booze… oh yea… and there is little food left!!
Had a great last day. We went to the beach for a last snorkel on the reef. Jess finally did really well with her snorkel and I was able to take the girls out one at a time pretty far onto the reef for a look. Fi realized that she can squeeze into Zac’s Fins, and so also spent some time further out on the reef. I may make a diver of her yet!! I am so proud of how all the kids have done this last week, although will need to watch Tara now as she started to swim out into the deeper water by herself before bolting back to shore.
In the afternoon on our final trip to the beach, I saw a huge eel right on the edge of the reef. Looked awesome with a bright yellow head and big teeth!!
In the late afternoon, Zac and I decided that we needed one more adventure and booked ourselves onto the Sunset Quad Bike tour… I know… I know… I am a great Dad, but the truth was… I liked the quad bikes too!!
We had a slightly larger group this time with 7 bikes in total heading out, and everyone was a lot more confident so we were able to speed along the tracks. Covered a lot of the same ground as last time, but also got to see a lot that was missed last time because we had to go slow. Zac and I had a ball, and even managed to get up to 70kms along the beach before watching the sun slip below the horizon into the sea.
I was pointing out to Zac that you could see the steam coming off the sun as it slipped into the ocean when our English tour guide asked him where the sun is going next. Zac shrugged and said “I dunno… the next place?” The tour guide responded “good answer… but where is that?” Zac said “Where Uncle Shaun is…”
The tour guide looked at me and I told him Uncle Shaun was in England… “Oh no…” he said “the sun doesn’t ever go there, it is just cold and wet and miserable!!!”
Zac is still trying to figure out why Uncle Shaun wants to live in a place with no sun!!! He is not alone in that either…
Any was great fun again and we rode back into town with our lights on just as it was getting dark.
As we got back to the caravan, we could hear all this music in the distance, so I went to investigate. The Resort next to the caravan park had a movie on the lawn on a huge inflatable screen. I raced back to the caravan and asked them if they wanted to see the movie UP? We all wandered down and as soon as the girls saw the screen they were very excited. Tara was funny, she marched on in and plonked herself on the grass, and just lay there watching. We sat out there and watched the movie on the lawn in front of the pub, which was very handy as we are out of booze (have I mentioned that?), so Fi had a glass of wine and I had a couple of beers while we watched.
A great way to end our final day here 🙂
Not sure where we will get to today, will depend on how quickly we get on the road. We seem to have spread ourselves around everywhere, so pack up might take awhile!!!
PS – I’ll add some photos to this post later tonight as we really must get packing!!!
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