Day 234 – Take only what you need

• Hervey Bay
• 26°c

A trip to the  Fraser Coast Cultural Centre/ Museum & The Big Whale was a worthwhile outing, their current exhibit was from World War 1 and contained lots of interesting memorabilia, they even had workbooks for Ella & Occy to complete. 

From there we went next door to their permanent exhibition on the Fraser Coast land and it’s story, was very informative and held the interest of us all. 

Day 233 – The Great Sausage Experiment!

• Hervey Bay
• 26°c

Happy Birthday to Lou Lou! 

Today was a late start after a cup of tea whilst porching turned into a somewhat social affair! Our neighbours popped over for a chat, so Ella & Occy happily watched telly for the morning! 

So it was nearly lunch time when we started work, today we learnt more about the Sun, baked some fudge cakes in our solar oven and did a Sausage Science experiment! Most surprisingly we learnt that the best protection from the sun is foil, not sure that will take off down the beach this summer?!!

A lovely afternoon stroll down the beach found us some shells and a sand dollar! That’s two we’ve found now, one in Fiji & one in Hervey Bay.

A yummy sweet potato & leek lasagne inspired by our niece gourmet Emma was delicious, before hours of detangling Rosellas locks!

Day 16 - Geraldton

• Geraldton
• 22°c
• Rain

Fell asleep last night to the sound of the waves crashing and strong winds & rain.  Still raining this morning so we weren't in any rush to get moving.  Ella who had been looking forward to a sleep in for the last week or so was the first awake at 7.30?! That doesn't happen Ever!

The rain stopped sometime after lunch so we headed into town for a look around.  Daddy found a lovely park for Ella & Oscar to burn off some energy.

Kinda wish we'd brought a picnic?

Back home and time for some learning.  The workbook scenario really wasn't grabbing them and so  have decided to shelve the workbooks for a bit. Unless they ask for them!

I'm delighted to say that this new approach worked, they were much more interested in learning and doing! Oscar was happy to finish his work and call it a day, but Ella decided she wanted to keep going. It seems it's going to take longer than first thought to "de-school" them from the "spoon-fed" education system.