SUNDAY 7TH OF JULY 2019
Woke up at 6am (way too early for Kate). Kate was in a much better mood this morning as
she only has a few drips of water on her swag throughout the night, instead of
the night before when there was a constant stream of dripping in addition to
Jenny’s snoring and the sounds of nature which kept her awake and then woke her
too early. Larry so kindly offered to make us pancakes,
as mum and I lay in bed and scrolled through the fresh memes taking the piss
out of the Freo Dockers. After pancakes,
Kate and Jenny lazed around reading our respective books, as Larry pottered
around the van doing his housekeeping duties.
After about an hour or so of relaxing, Larry decided that it
was time to get off our asses and go and get some firewood. We drove for about
10 minutes until we stopped and started hacking down various parts of the bush
to satisfy Jenny’s pyromania tendencies. Larry got his anger out chopping pieces of
fallen trees into smaller bits, until he cut himself on one (nature fighting
back). Nurse Kate to the rescue with a bandaid, and we escaped before Kate and
Jenny became too obsessed attempting to dislodge a bit of beautiful firewood
hooked onto a tree. We drove back with the wood strapped to the top of the car
and 3 very hot and bothered campers (who would have thought that hacking down
half the forest would be like exercise- add that to your work out plans
people.)
We arrived home and did a quick change into our bathers and
a speedy walk down to the beach to have a quick dip. The water was gorgeous,
cooling down our hot bodies, expelling the heat and the salty water healing
Larry’s cuts and scrapes. All thoughts
about potential crocodiles left out mind as we plunged into the ocean water.
After 10 or so minutes, the thought that there may be a croc coming to bite our
legs off resurfaced as Kate stepped on a rock and panicked, so in turn we
dragged ourselves out of the water and back up the impossibly steep, sandy
slope that was the entrance to and from the beach (some struggled more than
others...)
After showers and lunch of spaghetti (K and J) and pizza (L)
and the world’s best home made garlic bread we had a little relax. Kate and Jenny played a word choice game
while Larry did god knows what (probably sleep). After a few hours, Larry
started the fire, and Jenny rose from her slumber to ogle at the flickering
flames like a kid in a candy shop. After many sneaky attempts to add more wood
onto the fire from Jenny, Kate had to leave the comfort of her swag to come and
keep an eye on Jenny to stop her burning through all our firewood in one
sitting. Larry prepared dinner- chucking some spuds onto the coals of the fire
and fish for L and J, and calamari for K, while Jenny prepared salad. While
dinner was cooking, we, and the entire campsite, was serenaded by a young bloke
playing his bagpipes down on the beach, the whole camp stopped to watch and
listen and applauded after each performance. After dinner, Kate prepared some
S’mores, but failed miserably as we left them on the hot coals for too long and
they melted to the tin-foil. Instead, we toasted some marshmallows, using
Larry’s toasting skewers from Aldi (which he is very proud of).
Now we are sitting here with a very fully belly, watching
the fire slowly fade out.
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