Today was the reason we decided to stay on at Loyalty Beach for an extra few nights. Today was the day we were going over to Thursday Island by ferry and taking a bus tour. Angie and Rod were going as well so we all got up early and headed to Seisha to catch the ferry. We were all excited and hopeful that this would be a great experience and learn about the TI culture. The ferry ride over took around 1hr 20mins and was great to have some wind, although the sun h...

Today was Boo's 6th b'day and also the day we had to say goodbye to half of the 'the Frenchmans' crew. The honeymooners had to get a move on to be back in Cairns and so they offered to help Dale and Kerry out by travelling back together and Mick was going too. We saw the crocodile going past the beach again, had become a regular occurrence in the morning. Was beginning to think it was urban legend this thing about crocs in the ocean, but yea it's true! I made bo...

So all us Victorians awoke this morning with footy fever as it was the AFL grand final today between Collingwood and Geelong. Was a bit momentous as the Geelong crew obviously barracked for the cats and l am magpies as everyone knows. The morning was spent doing nothing much but Dale, Mick, Craig and Melissa cracked the beer open early eager to start the day off. After lunch we headed down the beach about 50m to the restaurant where they were showing the game on...

We woke up excited today about our anticipated expedition to 'the tip'. We rounded everyone up and left around 9:30am on a corrugated dirt road through Bamaga heading towards 'the croc tent'. This us a little souvenir shop in the middle of no where. A young couple own it and they have some really cool stuff for sale such as a cane toad purse and all the usual thongs like stickers amd stubbie holders. After we all got our memorabilia we mossied on towards the tip...

Today was a lazy day sitting around camp. Everyone was still pretty tired from the previous days disaster! Plus it was Kerry's bday so we all tried to make it special for her. We did a few catch up chores and checking over the cars. The kids were happy to play in the sand and make mud pies. For Kerry's b'day, Angie, Melissa and l made onion, bacon and potato omletes for everyone. When l say everyone, l think we made at least a dozen bloody omletes!!! They were ...