Up at and out for 8am to catch our reef cruise on Reef Magic. A nice and pretty uneventful cruise out to the pontoon. David and I signed up for an intro dive and so when we arrived David popped off to get ready. I changed the girls into their swimsuits and we hired lycra ones for them as it is stinger season. It did look a little like the Spurways do the blue men, or red in their case. The girls and I pottered around the kiddy area which they loved. David w...

A relaxed day today so not a lot to write about. I had a lie in until just after 9 and then gradually got up. After this we went for coffee in a café, a mooch around the shops and some food.Back to the apartment and I made a picnic lunch which we took to the esplanade and then spent the rest of the day playing in the pool on the esplanade. The pool is fabulous and has a beach and plenty of shallow areas for the girls to walk through. We had ice cream and cof...

4am - woken by a small child screaming5am - woken by an alarm clockI woke first and pretty promptly got the girls dressed in their sleep. Alex summed things up, I am sleepy, It's stupid o'clock. We all agreed ! In any case by 5:45am we were ready at reception, checked out with our bags awaiting collection, miracles do happen ! I had managed a quick shower which briefly turned me into Tigger but I very quickly became more like Eeyore. Anyway the bus arrived a...

Today was a vague lie in but given the time change etc we were up and about at 8:30am. We decided to take a walk to the resort centre 8 - 10 minutes across the dunes and it was hot, red and full of flies. When walking through we came across a Thorny Devil, what an amazing creature ! It looks like it is covered in leaves and moves really, really slowly.We ate breakfast at the deli and it was nice enough but the service was very slow given we had nothing very com...

Trip at four so spending time at the pool