AMICABLE AYR

We left Airlie Beach on Saturday 14th June and headed for 'The Burdekin', sugarcane country, to the friendly township of Ayr.

As we rolled along  yet another endless highway, I looked out the side window and my eyes nearly popped out of my head.

There was my name on the Gumlu school noticeboard , way out in the middle of nowhere!

 

I nearly drove off the road!

Skin was  very excited too and jumped up and down in his seat. He jumped so high that he fell out onto the floor.

I stopped the car and took a photo of the gorgeous little school.

 

All the children from Gumlu are coming into the Burdekin library in Ayr for a poetry session with me on Tuesday.

We arrived at the Silverlink caravan park in the early afternoon and set up camp.

At about 5 o'clock I stepped out of the van and saw thousands of tiny black snowflakes falling from the sky.

Every night here they burn the sugarcane and fragments of cane rain down on everyone and everything.

I looked around to tell Skin, but he had disappeared.

I looked for him everywhere in the park. I looked around the pool, the spa and around all the other caravans, but he was nowhere to be seen.

Eventually I found him in the playground.

He was on the climbing equipment with, none other than..........

 

 

Lyn carrot!

 

 

AND WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO HIS LIPS?

 

 

I think he must have an allergy to the cane burning!

 

He asked Lyn if she would like a slide and she shook her new hairdo ever so gently and said very sweetly,'Yes thank you Skin'.

  ( I must admit that she has lovely manners for a carrot.)

 

They both enjoyed their playground experience.

Then Lyn went off to find her family and her friend Flynn,

AND.................

I told Skin that he had to stay inside the van until his lips went down!

 

I WONDER HOW MANY DAYS THIS WILL TAKE?