It started raining, heavily, during the
night so Caitlin, Tony and I were up getting the towels and swimmers in under
cover, and getting things off the table that we didn’t want to be wet. It was
tropical rain – hot in between the drops and even though the water was cold it
wasn’t unpleasant getting wet.
I managed to doze off a little before
waking up again in the morning. LiAM and I were up first and got up to play
cards. Millie joined us after a while and the 3 of us played. For the second
morning in a row I went to put water in my kettle for a cup of tea and a little
frog came out of the tap with the water.
The kids had seen some other kids nearby –
it turned out to be one of the families we’d played with at Mataranka, so the
kids chatted and played throughout the morning. I spoke to a friend on the
phone and sorted out our washing. We had planned to go back to the national
park , then Millie said she wanted to swim in the pool at the caravan park, so
we decided to do that first.
Tony took the kids to pool and I stayed at
the tent doing some more blogging and catching up on a few more things. It was
hot and humid but very peaceful. The kids loved the pool and swam for a few
hours, and were reluctant to go anywhere else, so we decided to stay another
day in Batchelor and just spend today hanging around taking it easy. I went and
paid for our 4th night and chatted to a guy who had been out to the
national park today and got more information about the various walks and
swimming holes we could go to.
We played some more card games and the kids
watched some videos on the iPad, I read my book for a while and after a
relaxing afternoon I took the kids back to the pool for another swim. We talked
to a few couples who were swimming and then the kids’ friends from the morning
came to the pool, they all swam together and I chatted to the dad about 90s
music bands. The kids swam until the mossies got really bad, then we headed
back to the tent to have hotdogs for tea. Millie and I went to have a shower
and had a green tree frog up on the shower wall watching us. Caitlin joined us
and the girls had a play with the frog – it jumped out of Caitlin’s hands and
on to her face which surprised and delighted everybody. Back to the tent where
we got ready for bed and read for a while.
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