At 12 pm we head to "Paul's Place", a local farmer who opens his place up to the public every second day and does a tour of all his animals. Apart from the usual sheep, roos, ducks, geese, emus, he also has a deer, echidna, carpet snake, koalas, possums etc. Well, we didn't know what is was going to be like, but when it reached 2:30 and the children still hadn't had lunch and no one had asked for food, I decided it was well worth it. What a character Paul was. He had us all in fits of laughter. Made the children sit down and plonked this huge roo on their lap so they could feed it like a baby. He noticed I cowered a bit when the emu headed for me so thought it would be a great joke to give me the bucket with their food in it. Poor Glen got told to stand against the fence and squat down then Paul proceeded to put food on his head so the emus could eat it from the top of his head......ouch!!! It was so "hands on", it was just great, and I got to hold a koala which I just loved.
We headed back for a late lunch and then back to the Bay. I decide to get the fishing rods out. I had better use them as every time Glen gets something out of the boot of the van and he has to shift them he says "Gee, I'm glad we bought these rods" The only problem is I have no bait and no shop insight!!!! I try a rig with louas (sp??) to start and lose the lot on the rocks after the second cast. So much for my plan to catch a fish to use for bait. Oh well, I will pick up some bait tomorrow. We all have a swim as this is our shower for the day. Luckily the temperature has risen to about 24C, but the water is still pretty fresh on this southern coast.
Tonight we have a barbi over looking the rocky part of the bay and eat lamb and feta sausages from the dairy. The kids beg and plead to go back to the beach for one last look and Glen and I sit and watch the sun go down. Now we are ready to move on in the morning!!
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