Day 52 - Outta this world!

• Quinns Rocks
• 20°c

Today we took a field trip to the Gingin Gravity Centre, which ties in nicely with what we are learning about the Earth & Solar System. It was really interesting and heaps of hands on activities.

The Leaning Tower of Gingin! 13 storeys high and from memory 222 steps, boy were my legs sore!

We took water balloons up the tower to drop and observe the difference in speed & the impact craters formed.

Steve decided to enjoy the experience from ground level and Neale didn't want him to miss out on the water balloon experience!

When I was at school Pluto was a planet not a dwarf so therefor we are still classifying it as part of the solar system 9 planets!

We did a 2km walk around the solar system starting at the Sun and the kiddos took notes at each planet.

 

We were lucky enough to have Jessie come for a sleepover, it was so great to see her after what seems like such a long time away! We had a lovely evening catching up and just hanging out.  We were all tucked up in bed and whilst scratching Steve's back I felt what I thought was a piece of gum stuck to his back! After pulling at it for a bit, turned on the lights and arggghhh there was a giant tick burrowing into his back! So that was it, everyone was back outta bed for a look and after realising we had nothing in the van to douse it with I called on Lizette who so graciously did a Florence Nightingale dash at midnight to our van and performed the operation to remove the nasty bugger! It still makes me want to gag just thinking about it. Suffice to say none of us slept so well that night!

Day 51 - Eat your greens!

• Quinns Rocks
• 24°c

A quiet day around camp.

Steve has really embraced this new healthy eating & feeling much better for it - thanks Lizette!  

I decided that I couldn't do without a printer for homeschool any longer so we headed into civilisation and found an Officeworks!

Day 50 - Closer to the Big Smoke

• Guilderton - Quinns Rocks
• 68 kms
• 29°c

Eased into Monday with a cruisy morning hanging in the van trying to decide where to go next. 

We stumbled across a little seaside town, Quinns Rocks. You can tell we're getting closer to the big smoke now, more housing estates for McMansions seem to be everywhere and little shopping malls are popping up more frequently but we did find a Salvos and a few treasures! We also hit the local Coles to stock up on our new food staples thanks to our Nutritional Guru! It's awesome having her wealth of knowledge on speed dial and so willing to help, thanks Lizette!

Quinns Rocks Shire Caravan Park, $34 a night, power, water, beachfront, park is tired & old but in a great spot & at a great price, only 37kms from Perth

Day 49 - Beaching about!

• Cervantes - Guilderton
• 128 kms
• 26°c

We left Cervantes and headed down to the beach at Lancelin.

We caught up with the others and spent the day hanging out at the beach.

Oscar & Bodhi dug a giant hole and put the big yoga ball in it - they had a blast!

Ella & Aliyah found an awesome spot between the sand dunes to build a palace

After a lovely day at the beach we headed to a free camp stop near Guilderton, it was just on the side of the highway, but was fine to stop for the night. There were a few vans already there when we pulled in and thankfully there wasn't a lot of traffic noise.

Day 48 - The Pinnacles

• Cervantes
• 32°c

After a quiet morning around the campsite our travel buddies headed off and Steve took Ella to the jetty for a spot of fishing.  Oscar decided he would keep me company back at camp, I finally got the sewing machine out & sewed the ties onto the curtains! It may not seem like a big thing but it feels like a luxury not having to hunt for the curtain ties every morning!

Steve & Ella caught up with our buddies down the jetty and helped them catch a fish or two, he & Ella still came home with a couple for dinner. A visit to the Lobster Shack is apparently a must, Steve was very disappointed when he ordered the Lobster Pack only to be told the lobsters are frozen and uncooked!

We headed off to The  Pinnacles about 4pm as we wanted to catch the sunset.  We opted for the 4km round trip car drive rather than the 1.4km walk and boy were we glad we did because once again we were surrounded by flies. A couple of times we did the jump out grab a photo and back in the car thing and then decided we'd do the loop again. We pulled into the carpark to see our buddies Bus so stopped to offer them a lift as the drive was quite narrow and a few sharp turns thrown in for fun! So the 8 of us piled into our car and headed off for a sunset viewing, there were still flies and we are all now experts in the Miagi wax on wax off!

The Pinnacles are limestone formations jutting out and are quite a mystery.  As the sun started to set the colors of the landscape were amazing, all shades of reds, oranges, yellows & pinks.  We were also pretty lucky to see such a beautiful sunset too.  We wove the Bus off as they headed down the coast and shall no doubt catch them in a day or two!