Sounds like a waterpark I have been to however I can asure you it is just across the road and good timing when you have grandies there who have not seen dolphins before. One of these days I will have the snorkel in hand. In the meantime the new sinkies were a hit in the shallows and there was not a jelly to be seen, or felt. It must have been at least 30 mins of water play retrieving those sinkies off the sea floor.
Yes we have another list of tasks that all need doing with at least two volunteers. Why did we take the banana to the doctor? ....... because he wasn't peeling well. We seem to be tossing out bananas lately as they are ripening quicker than we can eat them. So get grandies to make banana bread. Simples! Also messy. We did have all the ingredients and they got to lick the bowl. While it was cooking the pool needed attention. Firstly scoop out some leaves, empty out the water, wipe it all down and refill. Now with grandies helping these steps need to be spelled out. It was good timing too, since the banana bread was ready after the pool had filled and they were ready for a sit down. Now to work out this afternoon's activity.
Back to Queenscliff we go to the same park and the same table but different cousins. This time we came with the lunch of chicken rolls, salad, sandwiches, hot buns, watermelon, grapes, blueberries, squeegy drinks and icy poles. Most of the play action was on the outdoor gym equipment although the playground came into it later along with the climbing tree. We finished off on the beach for 90 mins before a quick packup to get the cousins onto the ferry. All in time for me to get back for a five minute doctor call to get a long standing prescription renewed. There must be another way for this but so far chemists just can't give it to me.
The Coast Guard service is a volunteer one like a lot of other services around here, so we were happy to put in the gold coins and we needed numerous coins for numerous buckets. This day out was a well organised effort considering they had not done this sort of thing before. I talked to the Fish police about the red/brown jellies and they were trying to suggest they were Lion's Mane jellies but I could not convince them otherwise. We moved on to face painting, magicians and resusitation lessons. There was time for ambulance tours,rescue boat tours and fire engine tours before the hungries set in. For the second time in a week or two it was fish and chips in the park with a post prandial beach and pier walk to finish. Phew!
We started off at the playground and the wind which has been blowing for two days would not let up and it has been the same all day. There is meant to be research somewhere that says kids in the school yard become much more unrulely on windy days. We have been inside for most of the day however these grandies have found their own entertainments, leaving the adults to gaze wistfully out to sea. A visitor had the temerity to park in our view. Not on this watch.
The Bingo game is still a winner around here but it does not seem to be lasting past two cards worth of concentration. So how to extend the game. Estelle came up with her own idea of spelling out all the words on each piece with the tokens provided. Except that it is one token only for each letter of the alphabet. We start out ok with wombat and xray, so I say let's try some harder words like astronaut which then involves making extra letters and they have to be round and they have to be black. Now we have easily passed my 30 min marker on the activity scale and there are plenty more words to get back to.
The council men have been hovering about for the last two days and I can report that the beach path has been fully repaired with a new bitumenised surface. I thought I would take a look but I may as well bring the put and the snorkel if I am walking down there anyway. I did a few throws for my first of the year and my right side felt reasonably loose. I also checked out the jelly situation. This time I went in at the closer groyne. The jellies were about but not as many as the other day. I still retreated when about 10 or 12 started to surround me. They seem to devide the available space like people in a train. A couple came up to me who I had seen wandering around. They wanted to know all about it. Did you see anything? How do these grass balls form? Where is the artificial reef? What are tourist guides making per hour anyway? I picked up a big poo bag that was very recent. They didn't know that tourist guides also cleaned the beach.
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