Merry Christmas

Well it was another good year in the Young's household thanks to the kids for not raiding the money box throughout the year. In early December we went to cairns for a short break and a chance for everyone to do their Xmas shopping. We were also lucky to spend a few days with mum. Owen managed to make it down from PNG on the last night as we all enjoyed a lovely seafood dinner and some early Xmas presents.

Lastly, I would just like to say that the whole family (Mel included) went fishing the other day in the boat and guess what everyone caught a fish, everyone except me that is. I don't mind that is what the host is supposed to do. Anyway we ended up with a nice bag of Fingermark and a couple of other fish. Where are the photos I here you say, well in our excitement we forgot to take them. I can tell you the fish tasted really nice...

The Lakes around Weipa

About two weeks ago Mel and I went for a drive to get a couple of photos of the lakes in Weipa and a place called Putts Palms. At the end of the wet I will get some after photos. You can see in the first photo there is still water in the lake, but during the wet this will rise by about 3-4 mtrs. Probably doesn't sound like a lot but the is no river catchment or hills to feed the lakes, just a bit of run off from around town.


The next photo was taken at Putts Palms which is basically in the middle of town. The area gets a lot of runoff and is a popular swimming hole for the locals during the next couple of months when it gets flowing. Even though it is only about 150mtrs from where it flows out into the bay there has been no Croc sightings in the area. Where i took this photo will be under about 1.5mtrs of water once flowing.





The last picture is between the two lakes that will be full of water in coming weeks. As the area is so flat it is hard to get an elevated photo.

Michaels' birthday

Hi everyone look two post in two months, well I'm trying hard. where do we start? Michael had his birthday back on the 4th and for his birthday he asked for home made pizza. Not a problem until it came time to dish it up. As he was picking up his plate he bumped something and dropped the pizza on his foot. After a mad dash to the shower and some cold water he finally made it back to the dinner table. so this picture is after dinner before he cut his cake.