After a sleepless night, 5:30 came way too quickly but we got up anyway
and headed to Palm Cove to go on a sunrise ride. We loaded up in the kayaks at 6:30 right as
the sun was coming up and rowed out to double island and had a little breakfast
of cake and juice and fruit. It was
super nice.
On the row back to Palm Cove, the sea was much more choppy than on the
way out and my stomach started flopping about with the waves. By the time we hit land, I was totally green
about the gills and not doing well at all.
We sat at a café and gave my stomach some time to settle. It was great to just sit and visit with
Cathy, BJ and Reece.
I think all the running around is really catching up with me. I was completely wiped out and ended up
sleeping the entire day while everyone else went up to Karanda and Cathy took
the littles on the scenic train. They
were promised 2 tunnels and were surprised and elated by the 15 that they ended
up going through. It was a great
experience for them—they love love love trains!
My napping through the day served it’s purpose and tonight I was able
to enjoy Tjapukai by night. It was a
great indigenous show and dinner. É was
invited on stage to participate in the making fire performance and got a
boomerang for his willingness. He
promptly went outside and threw in onto the roof.
The staff was super friendly and laughed at him and gave him a new
one.
We hung around till the bitter end and were treated to some one on one
time with the retail staff. The main guy
out front visited with us, played some word games and ended up teaching us the
interpretation of a lot of the symbols of the aboriginal art. It was great fun!
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