Lazy Days

We have been away, on a road trip and this is a few of the things we saw;

 St Barbara's mine site in Gwalia a few kms away from Leonora, right next door to the Hoover Museum.

 Ferals # 2 & 3 with the replica of the Golden Eagle nugget at the W.A. Museum in Kalgoorlie.

 A gold nugget in the W.A. Museum Kalgoorlie. Wished it was mine.

 One of the many beautiful sunsets along the way.

 A gorgeous show off at Rainbow Jungle Bird Park in Kalbarri.

some Scaly Breasted Rosella's having Breakfast.

So needless to say no sewing has been done.

This was the first holiday the Feral family has had in 3 years (where we have gone further than a 3 hour drive away)  and we absolutely loved every minute of it. The ferals were well behaved, the King behaved too.Now we are planning next years trip and we hope to do the same but go further south to Esperance. We started in Mt Magnet and traveled the gold trail east, until we reached Kalgoorlie and then through the wheatbelt and home again, visiting all the little museums and out of the way places and learnt a lot about the hardships of our forebears and all about the goldrush days of the Victorian era in Western Australia.

These are the sorts of trips everyone should do in my opinion and I believe my kids learnt more about their state and it's history than they have in the classroom.

Well until next time Ciao.

The Griswolds Camping Trip

Well for the last few days the Ferals (my Family) have been out of town enjoying a wee bit of R & R and we went camping up to a place on our coast line called the blowholes. It's pretty much where the desert meets the sea and is a fabulous place to unwind. But the weather was awful. It was stinking hot and the flies were our best friends but it was nice to get away all the same. 3 days was enough for me though and it is nice to be home with all my creature comforts. I did take some photos for your enjoyment so enjoy.

This is the Feral Family in front of the HMAS Sydney Memorial Cairn at Quobba Station just north of Carnarvon. The HMAS Sydney was in a naval battle with HSK Komoran a german navy ship during WWII and sadly there were no survivors from the Sydney but some of the surviving Komoran saliors were washed ashore at this point of the Western Australian coastline and taken as prisoners of war by the locals, and therefore to commemorate the heros of the Sydney a cairn was erected in their honour. The final resting place of the HMAS Sydney is south of Carnarvon near Shark Bay and was only discovered last year after a 50 year search.

This is Feral Fairy #2 she asked her father to dig a hole and bury her in it and give her a pair of boobies.

This is FF #3 and as she was not to be outdone asked for the same thing as FF #2.

DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER  WARNING the next photo is of a dead animal

This cat here may look like it is a cute little thing but it is actually a pest in these parts and this feral cat is not  tiny, in the flesh it was about the size of a small dog, think along the lines of a small Border Collie.When these animals get loose and start to live in the wild they threaten the native wildlife species of our country and many have become near to extinction because of feral cats, so do not feel sorry that it's life was ended, it's death may have stopped a native animal from being eaten. It was one of two cats seen around our camp site over a two day time frame and the other one was even bigger.

The only thing wrong with our little sojourn was i have no photos of any crayfish (Lobster) to show you because the the old boy, ( sorry the King ) wasn't able to catch any, but there's always next weekend.

Ciao xx

Home Again

Well we have arrived home again after a week away in Perth, 10 hours is a long time to travel and because of the kids we break it into 2 days and its awfully tiring. Our friends Darrell and Christine got married and it was great to catch up with so many people we haven't seen in about 8 years and of course the bride looked gorgeous as they always do. And as Darrell is ff#3s godfather it was rather special. We have shopped and shopped and shopped but the kids came out of it better than the king and i, I did manage to buy some more fabric but i really wasn't interested in that sort of shopping but i was in heaven when we ventured into the new huge ikea store in Innaloo, WOW that place is dreamy and i do believe i could live there if they let me. i have my catalogue and Internet ordering sounds heavenly especially as the king of the feral fairies is going on his annual fishing trip next week and he wont be able to see what i am ordering. I shall finish rambling for now and leave on one last note and that is tomorrow is ANZAC Day and for those of us in Australia & New Zealand it is when we commemorate our fallen and serving military personnel, so all i can say is "Lest we Forget", and god bless all those that have died fighting for our countries so that we can have our freedom and those still fighting for it. ciao.