Amazing Animals - Clare

On Monday I went to billabong sanctuary with my friend Christos . I saw a big crocodile being fed. It jumped out of the water. It was amazing. After that we went to feed the wallabies they were lovely. I fed an injured wallaby. We went to the koalas and I got to hold it.

the Chainsaw!










Last weekend we went to Ingham with the McClintocks. We went swimming in a river and that river was full of bullrout (Freshwater stonefish) and we didn't get stung. We built a rock wall in the middle of the river to make the rapids more rapid! Then we lay on our backs to relax in the rapids but the rapids were so rapid that they pulled us down the rapidly rapid rapids with shouts of "Ouch!" "Who put that rock there!?" and "OW OUCH OH OW OW OW OW OUCH!". I am now black and blue because it was so fun and painful that we did it another thirty thousand times (or maybe it was thirty) It is still warm enough to go swimming! We went on a bush walk and we saw lots of cool things such as toadstool staircases. Then we tried to get the kookaburas to eat my new rubber snake but they didn't. So Calum decided to start throwing it to the kookaburas and it got stuck in a tree that was 4 and a half metres high then started to have branches. That meant we couldn't climb up to get it. Jeff decided to throw his best hammer but then that got stuck too! We all threw rocks and sticks at the hammmer but it got as wedged as a hammer could be. We were throwing rocks and sticks at the hammer and snake for about an hour. Finally we got both the hammer and the snake down. The next day we went to the Ingham show. I went on the big slide (and became airborne twice on the same ride!) the Gee Whizzer and the bumper cars. I also got a showbag. Meg and Bridie went on the spinning elephant merry-go-round. Dad and Jeff were crazy and went on the Zipper. We called the Zipper the Chainsaw instead because that is what it looked like and you had to be as crazy as a chainsaw murderer to go on it. Dad and Jeff went jumping on cane trains.

A whole lot of random things 2- Abbey

It is almost nearly my birthday. I will turn 10. I am hoping to get twice as many presents because I am turning twice as many numbers. I just read in a joke book this tongue twister: How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. That is extra hard if you try to say it out loud really fast! I have a lot of favourite movies. Here are some of them: Nancy Drew, Home Alone, Asterix and Cleopatra, Asterix vs Caesar, Thunderbirds, Madagascar, Over The Hedge, Prince Caspian, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Nanny Mcphee, Beethoven's 5th, Beethoven's 2nd, Anne Of Green Gables, Evan Almighty, Nim's Island.

New Playground - Abbey

Yesterday a new playground opened. We have been waiting for 2 months for it to open. It is really cool. There is even a statue of Aslan and the stone table (Narnia, book 2, the lion, the witch and the wardrobe, now a movie) We had HEAPS of fun. There are 2 castles and underneath one there is a headless horse man holding a pumpkin.(Which is from a very exciting story)

Swimming with a Dugong - Clare

I was swimming at magnetic island when Dad called out "Dolphin!". I hopped out of the water and then I saw it again. It wasn't a dolphin. It was a baby dugong! I was amazed. You can't see the dugong in this picture but it was somewhere right near us. We saw the dugong just after this photo was taken but he was too quick and too shy for us to take a photo of him.

Magnetic Island - Abbey

We were in a rush to get to the ferry to go to Magnetic Island with Auntie Shani, Uncle Andrew and Will. The ferry nearly left without us. The amazing view pictured on the right is Balding Bay. It is seriously cool. We went swimming and Mum saw a sting ray. We jumped out of the water and only played in the shallows after that. Bridie buried her legs and we hired a kayak and went paddling in it.

Crystal Creek - Abbey

Yesterday we went to Crystal Creek. We found a massive swimming hole, it was deeper than Dad's head and I was scared of the deep bit and you would be to if you have read the Spiderwick Chronicles, book two, there is a giant human eating troll thing that lives in deep water and is as tall as a 2 story building.(if it was man eating troll I wouldn't be worried 'cause I'm not a man, I'm a girl) We slid down a water fall. The part we slid down was only 'bout 2 meters high and we slid on the wet bit on the right side and it goes down another meter. The whole thing was 'bout 50 meters. We only slid down at the bottom of it. Dad jumped off a massive rock. You can't see the bottom of the deep swimming hole.