Our finest!

Not enough we get dolled up these days but I reckon the bird on my elbow is a bit of alright!! I tried to pull off my best James Bond, but everyone laughed at me!!! How rude!

Our wee blossom.

Because I think she is beautiful!

George turns 3

Well, fitting enough as it was, George wanted a pirate ship for a birthday cake! And Robyn shone again as always in the cake baking department. I have to say, its not a relaxing experience this whole cake making journey Rob has embarked on, we are only up to #3 on our youngest cake pathway through life!!!! George made an excellent pirate however curly wurlys and green icing in a Karratha park can only last so long before either the kids or the heat get to it..... I think they came at the same time. I had to hide the cake behind a limestone wall as the sun was melting the railings and the smarties to technicolor.... What i didnt realise was where i hid it from the sun was an excellent hiding spot for the kids to hoe into it as well... Rosie's reaction when she got caught with green icing all over her face was priceless, needless to say the cake was eaten before the BBQ. He received a Malvern Star bike as well as a load of spider man gear and of course some wooden pirates thanks Marg!!

Video Snippets from the last year!

Just a few quick video clips of our journey over the last year up here in Karratha. There are a couple of others before we moved up, but mostly all of these were completed here. The kids grow up quick... all of them! This movie goes for just 3 minutes!

Truck stop

Every Saturday morning, Rosie, George and I head out to the truck stop on the North West Coast Highway to get the paper. It arrives into Karratha about 6am and this is the first place it arrives into. We often just grab the paper, an iced coffee and the kids get an Anzac biscuit or something like that. We have a couple of rocks we sit on while we have our 'snack' breakfast while we watch the road trains and trucks roll past. This morning there was a Hitachi digger on the back of a float that the kids wanted to check out so I put them on the trailer for this shot.... Still in pyjamas mind you as well....Noice

Island sleepover?

Our first attempt at using the boat to 'stay the night' was a disaster! There was a storm brewing to the south which missed us however we had to make sure we had a mooring and were settled just in case! The tide inside the bay at West Lewis Island was about 5 metres from top to bottom and we nearly bottomed out at the mooring. And hot, wow, we thought the breeze might provide a bit of relief, but no.. we even bought a fan before we went out. We had DVD players for the kids, we had a lovely dinner from the weber on the back and a couple of beers. Sounds just splendid! But sheesh, the heat inside the cabin even with all the windows open and the fan going full blast couldnt get us to sleep. We sucked the life out of the first battery reasonably quickly, we started to drain the second and by 1230am Robyn and i had changed beds about 6 times each. The kids weren't coping much better. A decision was made to start the boat, untie the mooring and head in to the Boat club. It was pretty easy going on the way back in under lights. Lucky I am get used to the area as there wasnt a lot of moon. But the shipping port and starboard markers certainly light up the channel! We arrived home at about 230am and the kids were totally knackered, and we were pretty happy to have a decent nights sleep. We need to rethink the next time, maybe in the cooler months, but it is do-able with the littlies! No sharks except the nutter who swam up to our boat and introduced himself to us while we were trying to have dinner. He got both the kids in the water for a quick swim and told us there had been a large hammerhead in the bay that morning.... then proceeded to swim back to the beach. about 250m, just before dark? What the!