After Saturday night's fish and chips, we went for a stroll through a hot-rod show and then for a walk along the boardwalk by the water. The hot-rods were nice, and there were a lot of nice trucks and cars there that people had put a lot of time and money into. Gramp really liked looking at the old restored cars. Maybe it brought him back to the old days when he drank and ate meat and had a whoopin good time. We checked out the cars and then walked along the boardwalk, which tu
rned out to be a good little trek, to the end by town beach. All along the walkway there are big boulders, as you would see in a lot of beaches. Except the city has allowed people to paint on these rocks. It is really cool to see all the art work along the way. There is art work from all around the world, in dozens of different languages, and for many different things. Some were done by couples celebrating their new love, some were done by families representing their togetherness, there were many memorial ones, and lots of inspirational quotes and sayings. I thought this was a great idea and many of these messages will be there for a long time to come. We headed back as it started to get dark.
rned out to be a good little trek, to the end by town beach. All along the walkway there are big boulders, as you would see in a lot of beaches. Except the city has allowed people to paint on these rocks. It is really cool to see all the art work along the way. There is art work from all around the world, in dozens of different languages, and for many different things. Some were done by couples celebrating their new love, some were done by families representing their togetherness, there were many memorial ones, and lots of inspirational quotes and sayings. I thought this was a great idea and many of these messages will be there for a long time to come. We headed back as it started to get dark. The next day was Sunday aka camel riding day! We had breakfast, which was lovely! All the fresh fruit they had made for a wonderful breakfast. After a little while we all headed out to Lighthouse beach. I am unsure why they call it lighthouse beach because I didn't see not even one lighthouse. It was a really nice beach, and much like the other beaches I have seen here, it had white sand and blue blue water. A picture of paradise really. I wish we had lots of beaches like this around home. It really lifts your spirits when you go to a place like this. The waves were crashing the sun was shining and there was a cool breeze coming off the water. Although the cool breeze wasn't so pleasant smelling. Gramp told me why. They had a storm not that long ago which would have pulled out lots of seaweed and things from where it was growing. Now it was sitting out there on the surface of the water rotting in the sunlight. That was the smell. Rotting seaweed. It really did smell bad, but it was tolerable for the camel experience. We had to wait for the camels to get back to the beach so that we could have our ride. It wasn't long, but long enough for me to go off on my own for a few minutes and look at some rocks and things. I found some neat shells with great colours. Then I saw the camels heading up the beach so I hustled back for my turn. As it turned out there was no one else for that ride so Peter and Charli got to come with me for free. Then
a teenage couple showed up last minute so they went to. It was great! The camels came and lied down and I had to use a step to get up on the saddle. Once I was on the camel just stood up like he was ready to go. It is a hell of an angle that they toss you around at when they get up. I don't know quite how to explain it, but the guide told me to lean all the way back and hold on with stiff arms. There were only 4 camels in the train, but it went along really great. I would say that riding a camel is less bumpy then riding a horse. It is a pretty slow back and forth rocking motion which is easy to get the hang of. We strolled along the beach and the guide was telling us about camels and making chit chat with us. When we got to the end he turned the camels around and took some pictures with my camera for me. The shots he took were great. He took some time to tell us about camels in Australia and camels in general. Did you know that Australia has about 1.7 million wild camels? That is a lot of camels! After a breif camel lesson we headed back to the start to meet up with Gran and Gramp again, who were looking after the boys.
a teenage couple showed up last minute so they went to. It was great! The camels came and lied down and I had to use a step to get up on the saddle. Once I was on the camel just stood up like he was ready to go. It is a hell of an angle that they toss you around at when they get up. I don't know quite how to explain it, but the guide told me to lean all the way back and hold on with stiff arms. There were only 4 camels in the train, but it went along really great. I would say that riding a camel is less bumpy then riding a horse. It is a pretty slow back and forth rocking motion which is easy to get the hang of. We strolled along the beach and the guide was telling us about camels and making chit chat with us. When we got to the end he turned the camels around and took some pictures with my camera for me. The shots he took were great. He took some time to tell us about camels in Australia and camels in general. Did you know that Australia has about 1.7 million wild camels? That is a lot of camels! After a breif camel lesson we headed back to the start to meet up with Gran and Gramp again, who were looking after the boys.After a lovely morning of camel treking we headed to another white sand beach to have a picnic lunch. Boy, if nothing else I sure did eat good this weekend. Gran is like so many Nannas around the world that love to feed you. I sure didn't mind! So we had a big spread of bread, rolls, crackers, fruit, chips, juice, veggies and much more. It was wonderful. I was slightly creeped out by the giant lizards walking around tho. I looked around at some of the people and they just acted like it was normal. Psst! There is a 5 foot lizard on the tree behin
d your head, ya whacko! The lizards were Goannas. They are big lizards that are common in Australia. They were all over the place! There were big ones, skinny ones, little ones, fat ones they were everywhere you looked and crawling out of the bushes. Gramp said that he has seen them over 7 feet long.....eeep! They are not aggressive lizards and won't attack you unless you provoke it. If you corner it or something then it will attack, as will any wild animal. Gramp says that when they attack they can do some serious damage with not only their claws but their mouth as well. I was sure to stay clear of them all. Although one came really close to us, I stayed very still ;). I didn't want Canadian to be on the menu for the day. Also while we were picnicing the funniest thing happened. There were two men barbequing sausages on one of the public barbeques. They seemed as tho they were not the sharpest fellas around. One guy walked away for a minute to put something in the trash and called to the other one from the trash can. The other man, who was tending the BBQ turned and answered the othere man. A kookaburra sitting in the tree dived down and snatched one of their sausages and flew off with it. The man at the trash can hollered out and alerted the other guy about the meat snatching bird. The man looked at the BBQ and saw, that indeed, a kookaburra had taken one of their lunches. Then the kookaburra came back around and sat in a tree behind the man with his new prize in his mouth. One man said to the other "Look there is that damn bird." Both men turned to look at the kookaburra sittig and taunting them with their lunch in it's beak, when a second kookaburra came from the original tree, swooped down and snatched another sausage! They men were pissed! Boy you sure could hear those kookaburras laughing at the gulable men with no lunch! Haha it was like a scene from a disney movie or something, lol. After lunch I explored the beach a bit and took a few pictures before we headed back to the house for the evening.
d your head, ya whacko! The lizards were Goannas. They are big lizards that are common in Australia. They were all over the place! There were big ones, skinny ones, little ones, fat ones they were everywhere you looked and crawling out of the bushes. Gramp said that he has seen them over 7 feet long.....eeep! They are not aggressive lizards and won't attack you unless you provoke it. If you corner it or something then it will attack, as will any wild animal. Gramp says that when they attack they can do some serious damage with not only their claws but their mouth as well. I was sure to stay clear of them all. Although one came really close to us, I stayed very still ;). I didn't want Canadian to be on the menu for the day. Also while we were picnicing the funniest thing happened. There were two men barbequing sausages on one of the public barbeques. They seemed as tho they were not the sharpest fellas around. One guy walked away for a minute to put something in the trash and called to the other one from the trash can. The other man, who was tending the BBQ turned and answered the othere man. A kookaburra sitting in the tree dived down and snatched one of their sausages and flew off with it. The man at the trash can hollered out and alerted the other guy about the meat snatching bird. The man looked at the BBQ and saw, that indeed, a kookaburra had taken one of their lunches. Then the kookaburra came back around and sat in a tree behind the man with his new prize in his mouth. One man said to the other "Look there is that damn bird." Both men turned to look at the kookaburra sittig and taunting them with their lunch in it's beak, when a second kookaburra came from the original tree, swooped down and snatched another sausage! They men were pissed! Boy you sure could hear those kookaburras laughing at the gulable men with no lunch! Haha it was like a scene from a disney movie or something, lol. After lunch I explored the beach a bit and took a few pictures before we headed back to the house for the evening. Sunday evening I went for a walk to see if I could see a Koala. They have wild Koalas in the bush around the area 
where Gran and Gramps house is, and Gramp told me about how you can often see them in the trees. I walked all around with my nose in the air checking every fork of every tree that I cam across, but alas no Koalas were sighted. I will see a koala before I leave Australia, but it would have been nice to see a wild one. I did however get to see a wonderful sunset. On top of a hill I could see over all the houses and trees and watched the sun set over the mountains. It was a great way to end the weekend.
where Gran and Gramps house is, and Gramp told me about how you can often see them in the trees. I walked all around with my nose in the air checking every fork of every tree that I cam across, but alas no Koalas were sighted. I will see a koala before I leave Australia, but it would have been nice to see a wild one. I did however get to see a wonderful sunset. On top of a hill I could see over all the houses and trees and watched the sun set over the mountains. It was a great way to end the weekend. On Monday we packed up and headed out early afternoon. The drive wasn't so bad seeing as Liam slept for 3 hours of it. I was glad to have this bed again, I surely did miss my comfy queen sized bed. So this week it is back to the grind stone for me. It shouldn't be so bad, I have plans for all this week in the mornings for the boys, and it is a short week anyways. I hope you all enjoyed reading about my camel ride as much as I enjoyed doing it. I have a feeling that this weekend will be filled with adventure of some sort so I will keep you posted. You can check out my facebook for all the pictures from this weekend.
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