We made it to our next destination on Sunday afternoon. We're staying with the Barnard Family - Andrew, Ruth, Annalise and Liam. They have been very hospitable and even invited us to go to church with them the day we arrived. They own 6 rental homes, (4 of which they rent out by the room to local university students) so we are helping Ruth (while Andrew is working) maintain these houses. (Mowing lawns, "wippersnipping", and repairing things.
On a "Bush Walk" going to the beach
Our new hosts
Our Room - we have the upstairs to ourselves
The kids going for a quick swim
David raking - After weed-eating (wippersnipping) a large bushy area
David had to take over on sawing the bigger boards - Ruth was right there helping us all morning
This is the house we are staying in. It reminds us of David's grandmother's house. This house was built in the 1920s and they are still in the process of remodeling it.
The backyard
On Tuesday Ruth had some things to do so they sent us off on their bikes so we could spend the day at the beach.
We rode through an old rail tunnel on the bike trail
Some kind of lizard we saw crossing the bike trail
We rode the bikes 5 miles to the walking trail - On our way to Glenrock Lagoon
Part of the walk
View from a lookout point of Glenrock Lagoon
There were seashells everywhere - Linda collected a few for her Mom but only took a picture of them - Sorry Mom, can't fit them in our bags!
We can't go to a beach without taking some jumping pictures
On our walk back David came very close to stepping on this snake. We showed the picture to our hosts and they said it was the Australian Brown Snake, the second most venomous snake in Australia - Hikes!
We thought the snake was kind of small until it started crossing the trail.
On this walk the Bell Birds were very loud.
So good to hear your voice on the vidoe! :) Keep the posts coming...I love seeing all you guys are doing! Miss you!
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Thank you Stacey! It has been incredible and we have a feeling the next 11 days is going to be awesome as well! And then we will fly to New Zealand! Miss you too!
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