Friday, 27 June 2014
Last day of school for the term! Only problem is that Elokin still has lots to do. After breakfast Nath and I went for a walk to have a chat with the couple from QLD that were helping the injured lady last night to see how she faired. They said that the ambulance guys were very thorough in checking her over and didn’t think she had any broken bones other than her nose. There is the thought that perhaps she will lose her right eye as it looked to be dead. Once in Broome within the hour she was to be flown to Perth by RFDS for surgery. Her hubby was to drive back to Perth. Sue commented on how tough she was. She never complained, she was calm and even had to drag herself out from under the quad while 3 men lifted it off her. She stayed conscious and only went into shock for a few seconds. I hope that she will be alright. Given that she was riding a quad without a helmet, I think she was very lucky to come out of it the way she did. She could have easily broken her neck and potentially died. We had to explain this to our children as a reinforcement to always wear a helmet, no matter what you are riding, where you are and how fast you are going.
By this time Elokin and Hendrix had joined us so we headed back to camp to start school work. But before we could, the other couple that arrived yesterday afternoon stopped by to discuss last night with us. After they left we started school for the day. Hendrix got through all of his work, but Elokin still has a maths unit to complete, so we will do it tomorrow.
In the late afternoon we went rock pooling. Today there is a very low tide of 1.9m pretty much at sunset, so we made the most of it. We walked out as far as we could on the rocks and saw some pretty cool things. We were surprised by the lack of life though. We thought there would be heaps more than we saw given how far out we were and how often the tide goes this far out. We saw 3 blue-spot sting rays, loads of live trochus shell;, green, purple, orange and blue corals, chiton (a shellfish), blue rock crabs, dead cowries, yellow stripe hermit crabs in very cool shells, 2 brown nudibranches and a funny looking fish that we haven’t seen before. We are thinking a stonefish but aren’t sure. We stayed out on the rocks as long as we could and watched the sunset while making our way home.
Tonight we have 2 other camps near us and neither have children with them. We enjoyed a fire tonight and looked for shooting stars. Although I couldn’t shake this feeling that something bad was going to happen. It did eventually pass once we were back in the protection of our van.
Until next time…. Happy and Safe Travels.