We booked a cruise - woo hoo!!! We are so looking forward to it! We have been looking at cruises for quite a while now - it's been almost four years since we have been on a cruise and we've really been missing it. I was looking online and found a 13 day cruise to some islands east of Australia (Vanuatu and New Caledonia) for an amazing price! AND, we are going to get a balcony cabin - we have never had a balcony cabin before and we are looking forward to seeing how different it makes things for us. There's not much to do in the places we are going to that we haven't done before, but we are not really going on this cruise to see anything, but rather to just relax and have everything done for us.
On Wednesday, I went to a knitting club held at a library near the unit. I had read in a pamphlet from our local library here that a knitting club was being held weekly at another library and that they made items for charity. I thought it would be great to go along and find out two things: how to sew up a knitted item (I have so many knitted things completed except for the sewing up) and also what they make for charity and who they give the items to. The leader of the group is a woman who works for the library and there were four women there besides me. The leader showed me how to sew up a toque I had previously knitted and I finished up that one and another one which I left with her. The charity they knit for is a local homeless shelter. She said that they will take any knitted item - she had some donated wool there and so I took some to make a scarf. I told her that I would work on some other items as well and bring them back to her when we are back in Melbourne again next year
Dad's course finished on Friday and he was glad to be finished it. It was a very jam-packed course and the days were quite long. He had 12 students on the course and they had varying levels of experience, so it was a challenge to teach such a varied group of guys. They did all pass, though, so that was a good thing. As usual, Dad received very favourable reviews from the mechanics in relation to his teaching ability and knowledge.
The weather was so nice this weekend and so Dad and I got out in the fresh air and went geocaching both Saturday and Sunday. We looked for 12 geocaches over the two days and were able to locate 11 of them - we are pretty sure that the one we couldn't find wasn't actually there as there had been some construction changes in the area which we think might have disturbed the cache. Dad sent a note to the owner of the cache and we'll see what he/she says. We have found 73 geocaches so far and every time we go out looking for them, we have a great time - we enjoy being outside and it's a fun way to get exercise, as well.
Look who came to greet us at our first cache of the day
Dad 'talking' with the goats
Isn't he/she adorable?
What a great cache location - we had to lift up the metal number plate on the pole which looked like it actually belonged on the pole - they had drilled a hole in the pole and then covered it with the metal plate - one of our favourites, for sure
Close-up view of the hole in the pole with the container inside the hole
Two of many kangaroos we saw on the way to the final cache on Saturday - the male on the left was absolutely HUGE!
What a great action shot Dad got!
More kangaroos in the field
The cache was in the middle of a hollow log - when I bent down to look into the log, I was surprised to see a small goanna sunning itself - it was very well camouflaged - can you see it?
Here's a closer look
Can you see the cache inside the hollow log with the goanna guarding it?
See the pine cone? It was hanging on a branch of the tree and it looked kind of out of place to me - I asked Dad to check it and it was a fake - someone had taken a real pine cone, but drilled out the centre and inserted a small container with a screw top - the top of the pine cone had a hook on it which was hung on a branch - very clever!
A bunny we saw on our way to another cache
A very clever cache named 'You call this archaeology' - I love the clues which the names of the cache sometimes give us - this one you had to 'dig' under some leaves and branches to find it
This one was tricky to actually get - it's attached to that chain in the middle of the picture - it was under a bridge which was over a creek, but Dad had to really stretch to get the container attached to the chain - I was a bit worried he might fall in, he had to stretch so far
A selfie after the final cache of the day on Sunday - we love being out in nature!
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