A Lazy Leveque Day

Hello dear Blogsters, well today was a perfect, lazy, enjoying the scenery kind of day. We woke up, had breakfast and then just kind of hung out for a while. Mum, Danni and I washed the beautiful shells we found yesterday and dried them in the sun (so they won't stink the car out). The blokes took themselves off to have a fish and we sat around and played cards for a while. Golly Mum and Danni were good at playing "cheat" - what does that say about them???? I should mention that the blokes got 5 fish - tea for tomorrow night.

Anyway, after a while we got off our bums and decided to do a girls trip down to the beach to look for shells. Fred decided not to start - his battery was pretty lifeless after I played the sound system for a while last night and then left the ignition on ...... oops. Anyway, we got dad's jump start pack and that worked well - car started first try (great idea to bring that one dad!). We drove down the track, whacked Fred into 4 wheel drive and derbied on over the dunes and down the beach. It was not the easiest drive as the sand was soft - but we managed fine. I went to park on a dune, stalled Fred and then couldn't start him as the battery hadn't charged enough. Out came the jump start pack again! We ran Fred for a while to recharge his batteries and then wandered off down the beach. Unfortunately the tide wasn't quite out far enough to find shells - so we came back to the camp site for lunch.

After lunch we all lazed around for a while and then all headed back down to look for shells. The tide was right this time and we found more beautiful shells. We headed back to camp and had a quick swim before going down to the west beach to watch the sunset once more. Once again the sunset was magnificent! The rocks were red and so was Dad.... gotta put more sunscreen on in future.

Tonight Uncle John is cooking - we look forward to his delectable delights for dinner.

Tonight I thought I would try something different and introduce a guest blog spot. This evening I would like to introduce you to Danni. For those who don't know... Danni was one of my students for several years - graduating from my class last year. She is along for the ride and is going to write a bit from her own point of view. Oh.... and if you don't know Danni...... this is what she looks like.

Ok, over to Danni....

this is my version of today for mum

Today started very much like yesterday morning, slow and enjoyable, we had beakfast and the boys went fishing and the rest of us stayed at camp and played many games of cards, (because Nerrida couldn't win, and insisted we kept playing till she won at least once). Then after a good block of quality reading time we decided it was time to go and collect more shells, but Neds car battery was flat as a tack and we had to jump start it with the very much loved battery pack.

So we got onto the beach, and there wasn't a good shell in sight! So we waited around for the tide to go out a bit more, but it was going out so slow I could have finished my novel if we sat around waiting for it. eventually we decided to have lunch and come back in the afternoon, so we hoped in the car, jump started it again and went back to camp, where Lance and Stuey had just come back from their fishing expo where they had cought two big fish. We ate lunch, read some more, went back down to the shell beach, scanned the sand for some more treasures and went for our last swim. then we raced to see the sunset and see whether the phantom island was an alcohol induced vision or some little island off the coast off australia, surely enough it wasn't there, so I'm swaying between whether the Johnsons should lay off the booze.

Well I'd like to say hey to mum who SHOULD be reading this and I miss you .

Danni