Fletcher : Today was a fun day. We went to the tv room and we watched kio vs kat on ABC3, then we went to have a look around. We had a look around a ghost town at Cossack there were cool buildings there too. We looked at a cemetery, there were kids who died at the age of 1 in the 1800s. We were fishing at the river we caught 2 little fish. We saw a weird blue fish floating.
Its been nice the last few days not to be woken up by other people, we are at The Cove Caravan Park and it is so well maintained, the lawns, the sites, toilet blocks, even down to the bins being emptied daily, lovely change not camping with the stinky bin smell. Daniel's friend Mark left today heading for Broome. We headed to a town called Cossack which is now a ghost town, so we were thrown the questions of 1. Are we going to a town full of ghosts or 2. is this a town with no people in it. Ok so there was a moment that it would have been a laugh to terrorise them but we were guessing it would have back fired and no one would have got out of the car, as it was there was cemeteries there so a good thing we had told the truth. We had already had a problem with story telling, we were looking through Marks photos of Ayres Rock and showed the kids how steep it was, I said that maybe we should just take the elevator and we wouldn't take back packs with water as I had heard there was a coke machine at the top. All good, we had a chuckle. Next day when we were discussing that although it will be a big challenge to climb the rock, we should do it if we are allowed and we will help each other out. One of the kids, who I wont name said "I have already decided I will climb up it but I will take the elevator down" so I'm feeling bad by now then came " and I definitely want a can of coke at the top" Bad mother, I couldn't even have a giggle because I felt bad, although I am laughing now as I am writing this! Cossack was a great town, you could do a walk around the town and look at the historical sites but it was a 6km in total so in 35 degree heat it was too hot for us. The buildings that were still standing were so well preserved and one had been converted to a budget accommodation for tourists. The cemeteries were beautiful, if that's not too yucky to say, many of the headstones had been destroyed in cyclones but the people in those graves had been named on a separate sign. The iron work around the graves was lovely, the headstones were the same as many we had seen but the words were things like "deeply regretted by his wife ...." the wording was so different to what is on modern day headstones but these were form the late 1800s and early 1900s. It was sad to see so many kids in there but times are so different now, with medical advances we are so lucky. They were buried in different sections according to there nationality, I wish we could have stayed longer as we removed fallen trees and weeds out of respect but it would have been lovely to do all of them. Yep creepy sorry, I'm not one to be all creepy but it just seemed we should do our bit for these brave hard working pioneers. We drove to the lookout and all around the town, the old customs building has also been preserved and is now used for dances. It would be an absolutely gorgeous place for a wedding too, anyone who wants to get married in 40 degree heat! Oh yeah that's right We Did!! We then went fishing, we didn't have any bait but had cut up some tasty cheese and thought we would have some fun. There were so many fish, we would drop our lines in and there were fish coming from every where to have a bite of the cheese. It wasn't long before Mackenzie had caught one, she pulled it in by herself, it was beautiful. We had already said whatever we caught would be thrown back but Mack just stood there saying "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry" to the fish. She was so excited to catch it and was close to tears with excitement but she felt so bad for the fish. Dan unhooked him and he swam off to his friends so all was good. She put away her line and we had 1 more piece of cheese so we broke it into 3 pieces and Fletcher kept trying, on the last piece of cheese he had lost interest and handed the line to Mack and if you would believe she caught another one, we had an audience this time and again she was excited but full of apologies and sadness for her fish, Dan unhooked him and off he went. It was the such a great time, we had a paddle in the river but the sun was starting to burn us all so we decided to call it a day. We headed back to caravan park. Not long after there were screams of stop stop stop from the site behind us, there was screaming and yelling so of course we had a gig! I don't know if I can even explain the scenario in words as seeing it was hard enough to work out how and what had happened. So, caravan behind us sitting having a drink, a brand new prado from the camper next door to them mounts the caravan sites and gets stuck sideways on the caravans drawbar and starts dragging the caravan. What/ how???!!! It is just too hard to explain and we would have to draw a picture, well of course it nearly comes to blows and then there was the task of getting the car untangled from the van, by now the hitch was stuck in the Prados front wheel!!?? Of course this took at least 30 people from all around the park, at least Dan and I were only gigging from our site. Don't know the damage to the van or car but I'm guessing probably bad to both. Hmmmmm that's going to be really comfortable in the morning saying hi to your neighbours. The kids and I headed to the games room for Home and Away, just in time for Gina's funeral, wow its amazing what you miss in 4 weeks ( or not!! ) Tea back at the van. I went to hang out some washing and got chatting to a man named Barry at the clothes line, how exciting my life is!, anyway he asked about how I was going in the heat and said he was here for work, I asked what he did and he said he was a stevedore. I said that my husband was a stevedore and we had a great conversation for the next 20mins, he said he would love to meet Daniel and we should rendezvous back at the clothesline (look what our life is becoming!) Anyway I went and got Dan and left them to it, he was gone for so long, I said to the kids I'd either be in trouble for introducing them and wasting his night or he was having a great chat. Lucky for me it was the later and he had a really good chat with him and met his mate who actually worked at Daniel's work , small small world.
It looks unbelievable ,we are very jealous,bussi you have done a better job fishing than pa does.We are glad you are having such a good time.love and miss you all xx
ReplyDeleteLook at you two with the fish .. how cool,you are having so much fun and I am so proud of all the things that you are doing.Love you xx
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