Still here

We had a lovely day today, even though I felt a bit exhausted for most of it.  For some reason it felt very hot to me today.

This afternoon I went swimming with Cooper in the pool, which was lovely, and he really enjoyed being thrown underwater, something that's new to him.  I'd throw him up, let him go underwater, then pull him up, and as he was coming out of the water he would say " again, underwater"

Joseph has run out of books to read and is getting a  bit desperate.  Tonight he started on the "Creation" magazines I brought with me - but they won't take him long to get through.  I have ordered his English reading book to be mailed express from Perth because we managed to forget to collect it from school before we left.  Hopefully it will arrive tomorrow, because we are leaving Broome on Friday. What Joseph doesn't know is that I also ordered the latest Skulduggery Pleasant book, and the last Ranger's apprentice book at the same time.  Might keep them for his birthday...  

Katie is doing well at my parents' house, and said she hasn't missed too much schoolwork by being back a week late.  It would be nice to still have her here, but her grade 11 marks were also important.  She'll fly back to Perth after the end of year exams in November.

We took two trips out to the lighthouse at Gantheaume Point today.  The first was at high tide, and the view was beautiful.  The water was clear and light blue, swirling around the red rocks at the point.  Boys were jumping in off the rocks, but it looked a bit scary and dangerous for me.   There were some ospreys nesting there in the lighthouse frame, which had a sad, mournful cry

The second time we went at low tide, when you can look for dinosaur footprints.  The dinosaur prints we saw were  three toed bird like prints but big.  We saw about three in the rocks.  They were very clear,  facing away from the shore.  It looked like they had been made in mud.   The rocks were sharp and slippery, covered in barnacles and other slimy creatures.  they were very impressive colours, red, yellow, orange, and layered in thin layers like filo pastry.  Joseph slipped over and bruised his hand.  After about half an hour clambering over them with Cooper and Nadine hanging off me, I was ready to get off.  Cooper loved to look in the little rock pools at the crabs and fish, but I'm sure there were stone fish in there.

Apparently there are fossilized seed ferns and fir trees here also.  Today the area is pretty desolate with red dust and rocks...

On our way back from the dinosaur footprints this evening, we walked out on the deep water wharf at Entrance Point, where a  P&O ship (the Pacific Sun) was docked.  The full moon rising behind it looked very impressive.  There were people fishing along the wharf, but only the ones using squid were catching anything worth keeping.

Two people fishing off the wharf were Paul and his son Liam.  They are from Melbourne and Paul and his wife Bronwyn and their four kids have been driving to Broome for their annual three week holdiay for about fourteen years now.   They get here in five days, driving about 1000 km a day.  He said September is the best time to come because the weather is good and it is not as busy.  In june sometimes the caravan park is booked out and they put the overflow on the school oval until a vacancy occurs.

Coming home from our evening wharf walk, Oskar and Cooper fell asleep in the car, so we just popped them into bed then sat down to dinner. it was probably the most peaceful dinner we've had yet.