Inskip to Emerald

At Inskip we collected some colored sands and went to feed the dolphins. We camped on the beach for 3 weeks and boogey boarded alot because the waves were big. Dad showed us how to skim with our boards in very shallow water not even up to my ankle. He tied a rope to the boogy board and pulled us along in shallow water. I was standing up, Lucy was on her tummy and Emily was on her knees.

When mum came back from Papua New Guinea we went on the ferry over to Fraser Island. We saw some dingoes. They had been going around the tent, one got really close. We boogy boarded there too but it was stormy weather. Dad caught a stingray and some whiting that I had for dinner. It was hard to get the sting ray off the line because it kept on trying to whack dad, but we eventually got it off and let it go. We went four wheel driving to a lake called Lake MacKenzie. It was pristine blue water. I was standin on my boogey board like I was surfing in the deep.

We went bike riding in Hervey bay we went bike riding and cleaned all the sand out of the camper trailer. We got invaded by ants. Dad got us a new computer game and its really fun. Its called 101 Brainy games.

When we went to Emerald we fed the wild parrots and got some sapphires. We went kyaking in the lake and got some red claw which dad ate.

Bye for now
Grace

Fishing with dad at InSkip point

Relaxing at Inskip on my boogey board

zacs & nan

Hungry crocodile

crickey

Bindi and the Crocmen

a real crocodile!

We went to Zacharias house in North Arm on the Sunshine Coast. I used to play with him when we lived in Broome and mum was friends with his mum Belinda. It rained all the time and we lived in mud! Lucky they had a granny flat and we played lots of PS2 and NDS. We danced with Bridie and played dressups and went for a pony ride. Me and Lucy steered monty by ourselves. We also went to the beach and Noosa, Nambour, a cool playground in Kennilworth.

The easter bunny visited us at Zachs. We had to sort out our own easter egg hunt because of the rain and cane toads.

We left Zachs and went to the Glass House Mountains for a week and Nan and Grandad Bill came and stayed with us. We went to Australia Zoo and we will try and download a video of Bindi. It was heaps of fun we saw lots of things not just crocodiles. They had elephants, tigers, birds, A show with Bindi called Jungle dance party. Terri and Bob came out too to feed the crocodile, Wes kept on annoying the croc and swam away from it to get it back to its home. Bindi fed a crocodile for the first time.

Nan took us to Peregian beach and we had lots of fun. We saw some volcanic mountains which looked wierd. We went on a rainforest walk. We had heaps of fun catching up with nana and grandad.

Now we are at Inskip point

by em

P. S Bindi is learning how to drive a car and she is only 2 years older than me " UNFAIR! ''

Oops

The Beach at Byron Bay

Maddison taking us for a ride

My friend Jessica at Killarney

Waterfall at Kilarney

Tree Top walk at Orielys Canungra



Bower bird

Sorry i have not been doing my blog!! We have been to lots of places & it has rained alot. But now we are getting sunny weather in In Skip Point near Rainbow Beach.

After Tiona we went to Laurieton again ,dad did more flying. We went to the waterfall way and the trout farm was really interesting. We had to go to the Gold coast for dad doing some stuff and then we went back down to Byron Bay and stayed at camp Maddison.

Maddison took us for a ride on the quad bike there was alot of cow poo! We went to the beach and it rained but we still had fun. Maddison told dad to go to Killarney so we got to go to the pub for dinner lots. Dad went flying & we saw some waterfalls and made some friends, Jessica was living behind us. We had some other friends Georgina, Shania, Ashley and Lizzie.

Then we went to Canungra & dad did some more flying. We went on another tree top walk and saw a bower bird. They collect all blue stuff it had blue bottle tops and straws all around its home. We camped by a creek and saw some more platypus. It rained so much that mum and dad had to stay up on the last night to keep checking on the creek to see if we would get flooded but it was OK. We went to sea world but we haven't got any photos because mums camera got stolen. Dad has some on his computer. It was great fun, the dolphin show was the best. We saw seals, sharks, polar bear, rays, we touched star fish and went on a log ride that was so scary and I got wet. Dad went on a really fast jet ride and he was scared too.

Now Emily will do the rest,

By Grace.

Myall lake seal rocks and then tiona.

Myall Lakes

Mum at Seal Rocks

OOPPS mum got dumped

Us kids wave jumping

Tiona Camp ground pool

Dad and Emily fishing at Tiona

Playing Cricket

After Sydney we went to lots of places Myall lake,Seal rocks and then we went to Tiona. Em will tell you the rest.

At Myall lake we had to dig a trench around the tent because there was so much rain.We went for a canoe in the lake.It was a swamp so we did not stay for long.We saw a sting ray and went for a fish.

At Seal rocks there was a great beach.We jumped over waves, dad went for a surf, mum went for a kayak and fell off! We made a sand castle, Emily had a little surf.

At Tiona we went fishing with dad on the kayak and caught about 5 Flathead. We played cricket with some other campers and I nearly bowled one out.

PS my tooth is coming through i can feel it i am happy!!!!!

By Grace Galvin!!!!

Sydney

seal backflip

peacocks having lunch

George trying to get a photo of us kids at the opera house !

Sydney from the Manly ferry

Dad George and the kids at Manly beach

In Sydney we stayed with Caitlin and Jonty that we met in kangaroo valley.We saw the harbour bridge and the opera house and went on a train ride the driver took us to McDonald's the play park and around darling harbour it was so funny.We played dress ups and did a model dad took some photos of us.We went to Toronga zoo saw some seals do tricks and a big Monitor it was so fun.

By Grace Galvin.

Spy Planes

When we went to Richmond we went on a Hercules plane a spy plane a plane that was being taken apart a plane that was being checked and some spy planes. we also had a couple of looks in dads cousin (Derick's) work room. Derick's job and lots of other peoples jobs is to make sure all of the safety gear is working and to patch it up and fix things.

After we had finished looking at the planes we went to Derick's house and had dinner there. it was Derick's partners birthday and we had some of the yummiest cake i have ever had.

by Emily

Canberra to Kangaroo Valley

In Canberra I went to the Zoo it was good. There was monkeys,bears,lions,big fish,gray nurse shark,cray fish,tigers and otters.

We had lunch at the cafe.

We went to the Botanical gardens I got to take some photos. There was lots of lizards I had so much fun. There was lots of snakes.

We also went to parliament house it was very interesting and I got to take some more photos, we went to Questicon after. It was very very fun. Australian institute of sports we saw gymnasts training and when we were coming in we saw Jana Pitman. There was a fun room and me and dad played a skate board game.

Then we went to Moruya and hired a boat and went fishing. We only caught small fish.

Then we went to Kangaroo Valley and made some friends and they all had nintendo DS. We met some kids called Jenna and Flick and they looked familiar to us. They used to live in Padbury like our cousins. We went on a rope swing which was heaps of fun we had to swim across the big river to get there. We went for a canoe. Here are some photos from all the places we talked about.

by Grace

Botanical Gardens Canberra

Puma at the Zoo

Baby Zebra only 2 days old

Our friends Caitlin and Jonty

Video of our campsite and Emily on rope swing Kangaroo Valley

Kangaroo Valley