Monday 3 June 2013

The Great Outdoors

Being out here in the middle of nowhere does cause you to pursue certain activities that you perhaps wouldn't normally when living on the mainland. When you're out here, living in small community you have to make your own fun. Dunstan and I have been enjoying the outdoors through a couple of new little "hobbies"; Fishing and Gardening. I'd say Dunstan is more the fisherman and I'm more of the ideas woman with the garden. Our weekends of late, have really consisted of both gardening and fishing. So here are some pictures of our progress in the garden and fishing adventures.

Before moving up here, we really had no prior experience in gardening. We knew the basics-dig. plant. water. but out here we have definitely found our inner green thumbs. It's actually been really fun to see our garden take shape as we've chipped away slowly on weekends and with the help of the girls we are beginning to see growth.











 This term, come the weekend, the boys (mainly the other house parent husbands) are itching to go for a fish. Thus far, I'd say there have been a couple of 'successful' trips, but for the most part I think its all about the male bonding time. (Just quietly, the most successful fishing trip to date was when the wives came along). The place they go fishing is called South Beach, which is beautiful, but of course inhabited by crocs. There have even been recent sightings of a 4m croc down at the beach where they are fishing, but of course this doesn't deter their enthusiasm.
They use hand lines


And there are a couple of rods

I caught a fish! or in this case a shark
Here is what became of the shark; "Shark Bites"

Pisa cooking up a storm with the crab he caught


We live somewhere really beautiful.

Would you like to come up here and go fishing? 




Well, that is all from us for now. We are in week eight, four weeks to go, woo whoo! This Friday one of our good friends Lauren is coming to visit us on her way to East Timor. We are excited to host our first visitor up here. We hope she will be the first of many and that the above photos will entice you to come eat our home grown veggies and go catch yourself a nice big fish or crab or even a shark to eat for dinner.

Love,
Mr & Mrs M

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