Day 44

DAY 44 – Sunday

We all got up at 8.30am and drove around to the point for the Sunday market.  Thomas managed to con some free yoyo biscuits from one of the nice stall holders, as well as a new catch for his broken necklace (he got the catch from a lady that sells and makes jewellery – she took apart a necklace she had for sale to get a catch for him).  Darren bought some fishing lures and a fridge thermometer, and ordered a sticker “Upthemiddle N Downthecoast” for the back of the caravan.

When we had had enough of the market, we headed back to the caravan park for lunch.  Then the boys hit the pool.  Darren got a call to say that our sticker was ready, so he went across to the other caravan park to pick it up.  When he got back we decided to watch the footy in the caravan, only to find that the Lions V Adelaide was on tv, much to Darrens disgust!  A few minutes later we had the Hawks V Kangaroos streaming live on the internet.  Darren listened to the game while I caught up on a few glossy magazines.  At ¾ time in the footy I decided that we needed a swim, and coerced Darren into going to the pool.  A quick swim and then back to the footy to listen to the last quarter.
Once the footy was over and the boys were back from the pool, Darren organised the fishing gear while I organised tea, and we headed to the mouth of the river to do some fishing.  Darren spent most of his time running from rod to rod, to unsnag and rebait the boys’ lines, but managed to get a little bit of a fish himself.  Each of the fishermen managed to catch a fish or two, but nothing that was worth keeping.  We decided to head back to camp to cook tea, and had sausages and salad.  On the way back, we saw a large snake on the road.  We are not sure if it was a King Brown or a Taipan, and we certainly weren’t getting out of the car to check!  We watched a bit of tv, and by this time it was getting late and the boys hopped into their swags for sleep.