The boys were up, despite their
mothers request, at some ungodly hour making more cards and things. Initially
we weren’t intending to travel the Gibb and so my plan was to shop in Kununarra
but fortunately the boys and I had done some shopping at the Imintji Store –
the place all presents are purchased!
After the presents, cards, banners
and flowers (handpicked by the boys) were bestowed the festival of the food
began. First course was French toast with bacon and maple syrup with a dusting
of icing sugar. While I was preparing the boys rode up to ‘the shop’ and bought
De another present, a pack of ‘Kimberley Playing Cards’ – every mothers dream gift!
With breaky over, lunch went on
the webber, slow roasted lamb shanks, and the boys and I headed down to the
river crossing and spent the next hour and a half washing Izzy from top to
bottom, inside and out. The water was about 15cm deep, clear and cool and we
had a great time...I’ll have to find the nearest river crossing when we get
home!
Back at camp Jack, who is the
resident damper baker, cooked one up while I got our last frozen vegies on and
thickened the gravy. We tucked into lunch, which was pretty damn gourmet
considering!
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| The boys preferred method of travel |
In the afternoon we headed down to
Miners Pool for a swim and as I waded into my thighs a set of eyes appeared on
the other side of the river and then disappeared, while I beat a hasty
retreat,! She appeared once more, and while she was a ‘freshie’ she was bigger
than 1.5m and I didn’t want to be her mother’s day present. As we turned and
walked back she popped her head up straight away, we walked back, she
disappeared, we turned....etc; we had a bit of fun playing ‘jack in the box’! We
headed back down to the river crossing where we sat in the running water....a
much safer option.
For dinner we headed up to the
‘restaurant’ at the station, having a few beers at the bar before hand with
some of the locals. Just before dinner a few other campers that we have met
along the way arrived and the boys were ecstatic as their latest BFF, Finn was
one of them. We managed to keep them in the restaurant long enough to eat
dinner and then let them run free!
We headed back and caught up with Finn’s
parents Rob & Cad for a few quities before collapsing into bad after a
great mothers day!
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