Day Nine: Throw another shrimp on the barbie
Jude and James have bought some two-way radios. We kept one and they kept the other. In the morning Cass radio’ed into Camp. “Tea or coffee, over?”. Silence followed by a muffled, “Morning”. Cassius persisted, “Tea or coffee, over?”. Jude went for coffee. “Sugar, over?”.
So with everyone’s orders in we set about planning our day ahead. The day started slightly cloudy. I only mention this because it is the first cloud I have seen in Australia! We decided in predictable style to go to the beach – the one from the night before.
The weather remained slightly overcast but with some sunny patches ( I have always wanted to say that). Jude, James and Cassius went to explore along the rocks while we all stayed behind to play with Hero in the sea. She is really starting to get her sea legs and the colour in her face is giving her the look of a real local.
When everyone came back together we set off for town to have lunch. Lunch is a classic seaside fare: fish and chips, calamari and chips, in fact everything with chips. After lunch we went to the small but very cute beach in the town where there was some much better surf. Everyone donned newly acquired rash vests and body boarded in the break just off the rocks. James, Jude and I caught some great waves.
Most exciting was Cassius’ transformation in the water. He tagged along with some boys his age body surfing in the shallow waves near the shore. He kept shouting: “Look at me I’m swimming!”. It was lovely to see.
My excitement came when a dolphin swam within touching distance of me while I was surfing. And to think I paid $17 to do it in a boat. It was amazing being so close and a complete surprise.
We all swam in the sea until about 5 and then decided to get some food together for a barbeque that night. We ran round the supermarket got the kids to bed and started to get the food ready. James and I looked after the bbq – don’t worry readers who else did you think would do such a skilled task – and cooked some fish kebabs. Jude and James also bought oysters for us all - a great treat. More South Australian wine was sampled (sorry is this all becoming a bit formulaic??) and we talked into the night planning our next leg of the trip.
Until tomorrow. Be good.
So with everyone’s orders in we set about planning our day ahead. The day started slightly cloudy. I only mention this because it is the first cloud I have seen in Australia! We decided in predictable style to go to the beach – the one from the night before.
The weather remained slightly overcast but with some sunny patches ( I have always wanted to say that). Jude, James and Cassius went to explore along the rocks while we all stayed behind to play with Hero in the sea. She is really starting to get her sea legs and the colour in her face is giving her the look of a real local.
When everyone came back together we set off for town to have lunch. Lunch is a classic seaside fare: fish and chips, calamari and chips, in fact everything with chips. After lunch we went to the small but very cute beach in the town where there was some much better surf. Everyone donned newly acquired rash vests and body boarded in the break just off the rocks. James, Jude and I caught some great waves.
Most exciting was Cassius’ transformation in the water. He tagged along with some boys his age body surfing in the shallow waves near the shore. He kept shouting: “Look at me I’m swimming!”. It was lovely to see.
My excitement came when a dolphin swam within touching distance of me while I was surfing. And to think I paid $17 to do it in a boat. It was amazing being so close and a complete surprise.
We all swam in the sea until about 5 and then decided to get some food together for a barbeque that night. We ran round the supermarket got the kids to bed and started to get the food ready. James and I looked after the bbq – don’t worry readers who else did you think would do such a skilled task – and cooked some fish kebabs. Jude and James also bought oysters for us all - a great treat. More South Australian wine was sampled (sorry is this all becoming a bit formulaic??) and we talked into the night planning our next leg of the trip.
Until tomorrow. Be good.
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