Hello blog readers. Well today it's been three months since we started our big adventure and with 3 more months to go it really seems like it's never ending.
I know I waffle on about the weather but we have had nearly 2 months of clear blue skies and warm temps every day in a row which really is paradise.
The picture is of the shower and toilet block that I described in the last blog. A man in the camp had a para glider type aircraft with a parachute and was allowed to fly it around as long as he didn't fly it over the ablution blocks!!
We are in our fifth night at this amazing camp by the sea and will probably spend another as it is too hard to leave. Try as we may to slip, slop and slap every day, yesterday caught up with us after a great walk along the beach, 4 km each way with us both getting a dose of sunburn and also with a must have swim in the sea at 3pm which made it worse.
We also are very diligent with our insect repellant but a couple still manage to get us occasionally.
Yesterday after the swim Stephanie had a shower in the open air toilet block and she called me in to see a small 75 mm bright green tree frog on the inside of the shower door and later on after dark another neighbour saw 2 more frogs in the toilet bowl. Hope no one flushes them away ! There are apparently quite a few of snakes about the camp so you are advised to watch where you walk about camp at night and during the day as they are venomous and we are 140 km away from a medical centre so a bite would not be good. Imagine sitting on these open air loos and feeling a slithering thing slide over your feet, I think it would be a instant cure for constipation !!! Stephanie did not like the look of about a 120 cm long centipede crawling in the toilet today. So today Thursday is a no sun day for us day and also missing out on that cooling enjoyable swim in the 25 deg sea but a good chance to catch up on a lot of reading with the books you swap in most camps. While driving our van back from the camp dump station today Stephanie spotted a better vacant camp spot, flatter, better views and closer to the loos and washing machine so we moved camp. It was not long until we were chatting to our new and friendly neighbours on both sides and learnt a lot more tips and advice to make life easier and swapped some more books.
The camp sells hot home made ( in the homestead kitchen every day ) bread, muffins and custard squares which are yummy and a real treat and they even sell 3 course roast meals on Sunday night for $17 with free live entertainment and quite a few people take advantage of this so that's no mean feat for this remote outback camp. Many people like us come here for only one night and end up staying weeks and some times even months so this really is a relaxing and enjoyable camp to stay at. The regulars (said to be a bit clicky) stay in the powered sites at the office end of the camp under nice shady trees packed in a bit like sardines while all us other folk stay at the other end with better views over looking the sea and bigger sites.We are told to enjoy the swimming here as the next camp south at 80 mile beach has lots of sharks and swimming is not advised which just makes this camp so hard to leave. Its good to be alive! Stephanie's only gripe is similar to one of Neil Diamonds songs "Red Red Dust, gets on my nerves". Combined with the sand and water it sort of makes a concrete mix.
Catch ya soon.