Week Ten day Sixty Seven

Jumping. Must have been mad!


Well the last two days have been spent in muddy water!

Yesterday we went to the "Waterhole". a favourite teen hangout. It is a huge hole with two waterfalls feeding it. This is only available in the wet, but what fun. From the top looking in, it is high, but from one spot people jump in. Mmmmmmmmm should Wendy do it or not?

From the waterhole it looks even higher, should Wendy do it or not? Hope had a heart attack when Mummy left her with Daddy and went to the top. "I've only got one Mummy and I don't want you to die". Anyway when Wendy did stand at the top and looked down, she almost changed her mind, it was a lot higher than she thought!!! However with all these teens looking on what could Wendy do, but jump. So jump she did!!!!!!!!

When she got back to Hope, it took about ten minutes to calm our distraught daughter. So Wendy promised not to jump again, until Hope did.

It was also great to sit in one of the waterfalls and let it massage us.



The waterfall.

Today we went to "The Latram River". In one part there were a couple of swings, and Francois strung a rope across and tied a hammock to it.


The hammock.


We put some chairs into the water and sat there talking and relaxing. It was a novel way of keeping cool. Another couple of families arrived and suddenly it became a little bit more busy. On one side Wendy relaxed a bit more as there were more people for a croc to choose from, if one came along!


Sitting in the Latram.


Leila the Labrador had a fantastic time digging up logs from the river bottom and swimming with the kids. After lunch we walked further down the road while Francois and John followed us with the 4 x 4's.

We came to another section of the river were the kids swam across and with the help of Francois climbed up the opposite bank and jumped in. Hope did as well, marvelous, fantastic, now Wendy can do it again.... he he he. i must say all three kids were brave, because as they were standing up there a goanna, who had been spooked was trying to climb up the bank. So all three jumped in with this goanna in the water.

We have had a fantastic day and are looking forward to tomorrow. Cape Arnhem here we come.



Hope's Blog.......... I was not happy with Mummy yesterday, when she jumped off a cliff, into the water. But I did it today and it was fun. It was also fun in the river, because we let the current carry us to a tree in the middle with a swing on it. We had to fight Leila for this swing, as she liked to hold onto it with her teeth.


Leila!