Hi everyone,Well what an exciting last month or so we have had. Everyone except poor old Bradley has been to Cairns for one reason or another. Where do we start, ok Mel went first when the doctor thought she had appendicitis, luckily it wasn't but went did get a night in Cairns by ourselves.. No we didn't leave the kids here to fend for themselves, one of my work colleges very kindly baby-sitted for us. Next was Karla who went for a school trip to compete in the regional OPTI-minds challenge. This is a thing for brainy kids apparently, anyway they came second by a whisker. Lastly was Michael, yes remember a couple of months ago I posted the picture of Michael playing cricket, well that was his undoing. He decided he wanted to be Steve Waugh and his friend Jason Gillespie, yep Michael ended up with a busted nose.
Bradley hasn't been left out, he had his 10th b'day a couple of weeks ago. Yep 10 already, god I'm getting old... Bradley and I had a father-son day not long ago and decided to go fishing and what a morning it was, Bradley landed a lovely cod and me a nice trevally. No I wont bore you with another photo, because I didn't have my camera.
But we ended up having a great morning.
Lastly I have just come back from working extremely hard, ooh stop laughing. I just travelled by boat from cairns to Thursday Is, stopping at some of the most fantastic reefs and Islands among the Great Barrier reef. I have a trivia question for you all. What is so special about Restoration Island??? This lovely island in far north Qld. The answer is revealed in the comments page.
The last photo, is something everyone should do, yep stand at the top of mainland Australia. Now just because I happened to be working and it was raining and the wind was blowing like a mini cyclone doesn't mean I shouldn't enjoy myself.
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Fletcher Christian led a successful mutiny on board the Bounty while off the tiny Pacific island of Tofua on 28 April 1789. Captain Bligh was set adrift with 18 men in a 8 meter, two-masted launch. He had been allowed to take some navigational equipment and papers, and enough food to last for five days. Bligh decided to head straight for Timor – about 3600 (nautical) miles (approx 6480km) away.
They endured these conditions for four weeks before sighting New Holland (Australia). Their journey had taken them past the Friendly Islands (Tonga), Fiji and the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) Finally, they had reached the Australian mainland, landing on an island east of Cape Weymouth, which Bligh named Restoration Island. Here they found water and scavenged for food. Collecting clamshells they made a nourishing broth.
After two days, threat of attack by apparently hostile Aborigines prompted the castaways to resume their journey. Long story short they made it all the way to Timor..
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