SKIN'S NEW FRIEND

Today we woke up to the sound of birds calling, scrub turkeys scratching, kangaroos lolloping and the waves washing onto the beach.

Yes, we were still at Cape Hillsborough.

After breakfast we set off at low tide to walk onto Wedge Island. If the tide is not low you can't cross from the mainland. If you don't return at low tide, then you are marooned on the island until the next turn of tide.

This is what the crossing looks like.....

We staggered across amongst all those rocks and found ourselves on a mangrove beach.

Look at all  the new mangrove shoots spearing upwards through the sand.

 

This is how they grow.......

This is the view looking over to Orchid rock....

This is the view looking back to our glorious beach........

We made sure that we left the mangroves before the waves covered the crossing and returned for a walk along the beach.

I lay down on the sand and closed my eyes for a few minutes and when I woke up this is what I saw.......

 

 

WHERE WAS THE OWNER OF THESE THONGS?

I looked everywhere.......around the rocks, in the caves and I even glanced out to sea. Surely Skin would not have ventured into the water, knowing that the STINGERS might still be floating about.

THEN, I FOUND HIM......

 

 

He was having a little doze in a rock pool.

I helped him out, then off he ran, straight into a swirling sea spa pool. 

As we walked back to the park we found an unusual clump of something ominous on the sand..........

WAS IT A POO?

Before we could find out the answer, we realized it was time for lunch.

We had lunch with a group of women who called themselves,

'The Older Women's Network'

There were over fifty women and the bus driver all cutting into their plates of fish and chips with great gusto. Some of them did look quite old.

Then off we hobbled to the laundry to do some washing, and it was here that Skin met a new friend.

This kangaroo took an instant liking to Skin. I don't think she had ever had a banana as a friend before.

I'm sure that Chris and all the children in grade 3/4 Kongwak Primary School will be happy to see that Skin has made such a good choice in a friend this time.

  ( I am secretly happy that those carrots he met in Mooloolaba seemed to have disappeared from his thoughts!)