First day back at school for the Queensland kids so have started ours back too. They're pretty unhappy about it, Lochie especially! Finally though, the journals are up to date and are a mix of fantastic and a bit crappy! I'm not sure how we're going to fit this school caper into our days but we'll give it a go. Now that we're not driving such huge distances each day it might be easier.
The salt lakes throughout central southern WA are amazing, we stopped to collect some salt and all sank through this pure white crust to the black oozing mud underneath. The kids thought it was fantastic!
The drive south to Albany took us through the Stirling ranges, seen here from the north. It was a great drive even though we thought we'd lost a piece of the car on the rough corrigations at one stage!
A bit later.................
We've spent the last few days herre in Albany and have had a good explore. The kids really enjoyed whale world though found the whole concept of whaling and blowing them up with explosives hard to comprehend let alone understand why we did it. The skeletons of the whales and the sheer size of them is amazing. The blue whale jaw bones alone makes you see why it was perfectly possible for Jonah to be swallowed whole!
Probably the most fascinating thing for me was the whale lice! A gigantic version of the nits we see every school term in our house! They were the size of my little fingernail, would be so much easier to comb them out if ours were that size!
The coastal scenery is really rugged and wild. Though the weather has been really mild and calm I can just picture how the ocean could turn and be really fierce. Albany is West Australia's first European settlement and there are remnents of the early Georgian building in town. Very Jane Austen, easily able to picture women and men of a bygone era walking some of the streets.
The salt lakes throughout central southern WA are amazing, we stopped to collect some salt and all sank through this pure white crust to the black oozing mud underneath. The kids thought it was fantastic!
The drive south to Albany took us through the Stirling ranges, seen here from the north. It was a great drive even though we thought we'd lost a piece of the car on the rough corrigations at one stage!
A bit later.................
We've spent the last few days herre in Albany and have had a good explore. The kids really enjoyed whale world though found the whole concept of whaling and blowing them up with explosives hard to comprehend let alone understand why we did it. The skeletons of the whales and the sheer size of them is amazing. The blue whale jaw bones alone makes you see why it was perfectly possible for Jonah to be swallowed whole!
Probably the most fascinating thing for me was the whale lice! A gigantic version of the nits we see every school term in our house! They were the size of my little fingernail, would be so much easier to comb them out if ours were that size!
The coastal scenery is really rugged and wild. Though the weather has been really mild and calm I can just picture how the ocean could turn and be really fierce. Albany is West Australia's first European settlement and there are remnents of the early Georgian building in town. Very Jane Austen, easily able to picture women and men of a bygone era walking some of the streets.
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