Camp Life January

It's been another Wet Wonga Week!!! and I love it!...In the last 7 days we've had just over 300ml of rain.

Also of interest in our area was the spotting of a crocodile on our beach.Our acting manager at the Wonga Beach Camp while Ce Ce is away, Marilyn, made it into the Cairns Post!..Cairns 'leading' newspaper...(cos its the only newspaper in Cairns!). (She is our neighbour, by the way so you could say 'we are living next to a celebrity')...

A croc on the beach is not unusual here, as when we get the wet season rain, it flushes the creeks and rivers...it is known there is a resident croc in each river/creek which flows out to the beach. Guess they come out to the beach have a look around and see if there is anything interesting on the menu, like a human or maybe a dog as an entree!

So now the 'Actung' signs are at the public beach entrances to warn unsuspecting tourists.

My mate Al, has been in Townsville visiting his son, daughter-in-law and grand daughter for 3 weeks and during his absence, the annexe on his caravan leaked badly and basically disintergrated...also in this time a huge palm frond landed on his 'carport' tearing a whole in it!..

Yesterday afternoon at 'Early Openers' we wrapped warning fencing around his caravan site, put up an appropriate sign and even a hard hat to greet him on his return this morning from his holiday...

Early Openers -Keith,Patrick and Shorty (with his back to the camera) and Marydog.

Patrick getting a handshake from Marydog before her 'treat'...an Italian sausage...

When Al is here he usually 'treats' her with chicken necks he buys specially for her (Marydog belongs to Keith and his wife Rosina)...As you can probably see...Marydog is 'well treated'!

So this morning Al came home...

Al and his best mate Shorty. At least he could still manage a big Smile!

In the fishing department Hans caught his first prawns this morning in the net...

He was wrapped!...10 of them! So we put them in the billy and cooked the morsels!...

They were delicious....they reckon in a week, they will have trebbled in size (the ones he left in the sea)... so looks like prawns will be on the menu the next week or so! YUM!

The darker one in the pot is apparently called the 'leader prawn'...so is the one responsible for leading them all into Hans's net!(Some leader!)

Patrick has been cultivating and replanting one of the camp gardens in his spare time...He's got tomatoes, banana plants, pineapples, all sorts of flowering plants starting to flourish...this is his first flower on one of the Canna Lily's ...

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