Everyone got up nice and early to go to the pelican feeding – clearly I was the only one who listened to the ranger at Monkey Mia who had told us the Pelicans from Kalbarri were all at Lake Eyre at the moment. So I wisely grunted and rolled over in bed and told them to go without me – not surprisingly they were all back within about 15 minutes – but oh I enjoyed my 15 minutes of solitude.
Once we were all up and going we headed to the national park to do the walk to Natures Window – a window in the rock that frames the Murchison River below. Thomas wasn’t feeling well so he stayed in the car while the rest of us went for a walk. Although Sam is still refusing to walk and insists o riding on Paul’s shoulders.
The rock formation was lovely and the views down to the river were beautiful. When we got back to the car Tom was feeling worse so instead of doing the other walk we had planned we headed back to the camp so he could have a sleep. After he woke up (and I will confess that I had a nanna nap too) he was feeling heaps better so we went across the road and hired some paddle boats and kayaks. Claire and I opted for single person kayaks and Luke and Thomas shared one paddle boat and Paul and Sam the other. I am kicking myself because I forgot to take the camera with me because as Tom was getting into the paddleboat he misstepped and fell straight in the water and the guy who was holding it said ‘guess I should have been holding that tighter’.
Eventually we were all out on the water having a great time until a big launch started heading our way. I knew the boys would be okay but I had visions of Claire being tipped out of her kayak from the boats wake – after telling her to ride out the waves she yelled out “that was awesome can we do it again”.
Paul and the boys headed in after 30 mins and went to the park, Claire and I spent another half hour paddling around and raced back to shore after we rode the wake of another boat.
We walked further up the beach to see how the fishing was going – poor Deb, it seemed like everyone was catching something except her. After a while we decided to go back to the campground and ended up taking all the Burgess kids with us – we passed one lady and I heard her say to her husband ‘eight kids!’
Paul went out and picked up pizza for dinner – never known a pizza to have so much topping – two pieces and we were full! Sat up chatting for a while but we have discovered that the further south we head the colder the nights are getting.
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