Holiday: phase three

Hi everyone! We had an awesome time at Fortescue Bay! Everyone who came down enjoyed themselves and the weather was nice to us (most of the time) :-)



Our set-up. Over the 13 days we were there we had a total of 26 visitors. 24 really, cause Loren's dad and bro don't count cause they were there for all of 15 minutes.

Our first visitors were the Greggs. That's Jordy (Ray's bf) and Ally (the twins bf) and their family. The whole family came down for a day on the 5th (our first full day) and Jordy and Ally stayed for two nights. They got collected on the 7th.

BTW - dosen't it confuse you how bf can mean boyfriend and best friend???

We took Jordy and Ally snorkling at Canoe Bay. (the ship wreck in the photo) Its really cool cause its surrounded by weed and then theres a hole in the front of it which is full of really pretty little fish in layers as you look down! :-)

Unfortunately, the water there was really cold so it took you at least 15 min after u got uot for you 2 warm up! So Rachel and Jordy helped each other warm up.

Me and Kez and Ally on the shipwreck. The days whith Jordy and Ally seemed 2 drag on forever. Well, for me they did. Cause I was a loner. And I really really really hate bein a loner. I didn't have recption either - so I couldn't complain to any one who might actually care.

The twins and Ally. Here's something that might interest u - Jordy's got a new nick name - FIDO! Cause he follows Rachel round like a perfectly well trained little puppy dog.

The day the Greggs left the Morley's came. score to me! I now had friends and Rachel didn't. Infact Jordy was the only friend Rachel had for the intire time!

The Morleys came down on their birthdays too. Sam's birthday was on the day they came down and Ollie's was the next day.

James eating a Jaffle. Thats what we call fire-toasted sandwitches. We made lots of jaffels while we were there. I even got one nearly perfect - nicely brown, no black.

Right when the Morleys were leaving the Muggeridges (thats not spelled right) arrived. They stayed for one night but they didn't leave till half past ten at night. Oh yeah - the Morleys stayed for two nights. I don't think I told you that yet!

So the Muggs arrived on the Staurday. My friend Loren came Sunday morning and the Kerrisons came Sunday arvo.

Family photo - us and the Kerrisons. The Kerrisons stayed two nights - they left on Tuesday.

Jacqui. She and her mum came down on Monday and her Mum left on Wednesday but Jacqui stayed for the rest of the time.

Loren also stayed with us for the rest of the time.

As you can see we spent a lot of time playing games. Even on nice days, which confuses me. The only days I didn't play a lot of games was when James was there cause he hates them cause he's bad at them.

More games. Except this time the weather was bad so I didn't mind.

Ok, so thats the people who were there. Now I have to tell you what we did! And we did lots! We went round to canoe bay twice more after the Greggs left; we took the Morley's over in the boat and I kayaked round with Loren and Jacqui. We snorkled everytime we went.

The ski Biscuit. I spent so much time on this thing its not funny. We had it out a total of 7 times and I went on it several times everytime we had it out. So thats a lot of time on the biscuit.

I rode it forwards (normal), backwards and laying down. I layed down on it on the last day the Morleys were there cause I hadn't fallen out yet and I thought I'd have a better chance of achieving that if I layed down. So I did. But I asked Dad to be nice to me, at least to start with. So what did he do??? He gave the motor to James. James! James who hasn't ever driven a boat that powerful before. James who would enjoy tipping me out. I was freaked. I was really freaked. But I stayed on. He went fast and he went around sharp corners but he didn't do both at once which was nice of him. But I didn't manage 2 suceed in falling out.

The day after the Morley's left - the day Loren arrived - I did manage to fall out. Twice. I was sitting normally and holding on and everything but I managed to come of. It didn't hurt - but aparently it looked pretty specky. I fell of every day after that. It was as if falling out once had jinxed me.

We did a lot of animal watchin too. There's a penguin rookery about half an hour away from the campsite and we took people around there three times to watch the parents climb up the rocks to their chicks. Its so cute cause they're always stumbling and falling over. But sometimes it takes a while for them to start coming out of the water so waiting for them gets a bit boring. The first time we went just with the Morley's. James and I watched the stars come out and had a competition to see who could spot them first. I won. :-) We also went down with the Kerrisons' the Mudgridges and Loren (all and once) and again with Loren and Jacqui and Jacqui's mum.

And that's a photo of a seal, not a penguin. we didn't have any penguin photos.

Thats a seal again. We found a colony of seals in the boat and went snorkling with them. Well, me and Loren and Jacqui and Dad did. NO-one else wanted to come and Rachel just stayed in the boat cause she was scared of the cold water and the jellyfish. Seals are the most amazing animals! The have such huge eyes and they swim round you and look at you and do there hand-stand thingys. And they swim so fast! And they come so close to you! Loren and I both touched them.

I went swimming at lease once every day, so here's a photo of us on the beach to finish with! I hope you have enjoyed all the pics of the third phase of our holiday!!!