We had a lovely sunrise…we are well and truly awake for sunrises these days. Toby is waking up at around 5:45 am and Nathan not much later. Naturally I’m not allowed to sleep once they are awake.
We had pancakes for breakfast and then Nathan and Toby went visiting while Andrew and I cleaned up. Then we all went down to the riverbed to look at the rocks and walk along it a bit. The rocks were really interesting, with some rocks consisting of layers upon layers that could be easily broken apart. Andrew found one particularly interesting rock with lots of small circles and swirls on it. It looked to us like fossilized shells.
When we got back we discovered that Toby had left his hat somewhere, so Nathan and Andrew went back to look for it while I made some morning tea. The hat was found and we had morning tea in the riverbed before the kids decided it was time to ride the bikes. Unfortunately for them, though, they both had a flat back wheel. I fixed the tyres (Nathan had two punctures, Toby only one) while Andrew did some wiring in the car to install some cigarette lighters in the passenger footwell for charging technology.
We had a late lunch after all that, and then we went for a drive to have a splash in some water that we had crossed yesterday. We went to the Aroona ruins and found that there was water from available from a spring. Nathan and I walked up to the ruins while Andrew looked after a sleeping Toby. We woke him when we got back to the water though Toby wasnt interested in getting his feet wet. There were lots of tadpoles in the water.
Back at the campsite the boys went visiting on their bikes. The school girls were coming back from their adventures in groups, and every group that went past all yelled hello to Nathan and Toby. I didn’t realise that they had talked to so many of them that they all knew their names!
Dinner was stir fry chicken and veggies with rice, camping style. It wasnt something we had had before, but it seemed to work ok. It was a bit dry as there was no sauce, but otherwise yummy. I had marinated the meat at home before we left and then frozen them in vacuum packed bags.
Sunrise
Emus
Shale
