Fletcher: While mum & dad were getting ready this morning Mackenzie and I had a little sleep in. It was a surprise what we had for breakfast because I had left over chicken from chicken treat last night and Mackenzie had soup in a mug. Then we left. We stopped at a petrol station and kept going and didn't stop for lunch, finally we reached our place which is Dongara. We found our site and unpacked the caravan. Then Mackenzie and I helped mum cook dinner, we had chicken sausages and alfredo pasta. Then a storm came and their was lightening, the lightening show was exciting.
Today started early for Dan & I but we decided not to wake the kids until everything was packed and ready. We checked out of the park and headed to IGA for a few snacks. We are still packing the basket with snacks and are now packing cheese & bickies & chicken/ham, fruit, muesli bars & chips, to help get us through if we don't stop for lunch on time. Today was one of those days that we pushed through past lunch, we stopped quite a few times to take photos along the way. We are blown away by the amount of grass trees in this section of W.A. they are not only massive in size but they are everywhere, they are all along the roadside 100's of them for as far as the eye can see. Even in the industrial estates, in the 10 years in our Berwick house our tiny one only got the spears grow once, all of these had spears, if not one -multiple. So jealous. The beaches were fantastic too, the sand is so white and the sand dunes are so hard to explain, they just pop out of nowhere and are often set back from the beach- divided by the road for 100's of metres. This is from a continual process of the sea and wind eroding the dunes and depositing the eroded material to form new dunes. The oldest dunes are the furthest away from the coast and are called Bassendean dunes. The mozzies are smaller here but bite just as nasty, the flies are just as annoying, the march flies sting like crazy (I have a bite & a bruise to prove it) and the ants are insane. They are constantly on the move which back home we would say "its going to rain" but here they just seem to be in a hurry to do what they are doing. If you stand still too long your feet are covered, or like Daniel who stopped the car in the main street of Coolgardie a few days ago to take a photo, walked around the car and tripped over an ants nest, yep tripped over, proper slow motion trip. Ok so the nest was big but still hilarious, bummer no one in the street was watching, bummer I wasn't videoing it. We set up at Dongara (Port Denison), the park here is really nice, well set out big sites & there is several levels to work in with the fall of the land. The smell is bad, I can't explain it, not a rotten egg smell, a sulphur or septic smell. Funny, we forget for a moment that its environmental and look at someone and say "ohhh is that you" Mack has just said it to Dan and Dan is sitting here saying ewww that stinks. Beautiful town though, forget its smell we will get used to it. The kids did a supervised cook up for tea, sausages & pasta. They did great job and tea was eaten in a flash. Just as we started tea a storm was rolling in, the lightning show was great, the kids got glow sticks and sat and watched excitedly, Bentley on the other hand was not happy, I tried to put him in the van, dragging him, but he didn't want to be in there on his own either. A hot muggy night that saw us and most others with our air cons going to try eat dinner. A game of Uno that finally sees me winning a game but I'm still losing by a mile in the running total.
Well we can expect 2 fabulous cooks when you come home,lot's of outback cooking yummy!Lovely pics.
ReplyDeleteTake care,love you xx