After our disaster at Sapphire, and with such muggy weather, I made sure to ring ahead to see if we would fit in the next caravan park. We did, just fine and were happy to be back at the coast, not that we really spent any time at the beach!
We stayed at Kinka Beach, and spent some time catching up on schoolwork and preparing a video for Lexie to apply for some positions of responsibility for next year at her school. Her friends were all presenting a powerpoint, so we recorded Lexie doing hers and sent it through via YouTube. She did a spectacular job, and had to cope with soo many technical issues. First she did the whole thing on my mac but we had to use the PC to present, so all the fonts and transitions had to be re-done. Then the white background she had chosen was blowing out on screen and we had the change it to a dark grey. Poor thing coped well with all the issues and only stumbled over one word. We didn't re-shoot, as her friends would not have had that chance. We are so proud of her presentation - she did a spectacular job, especially considering she didn't have her teacher here to ask for help! Sadly we've just discovered that Lexie was not successful in her application. Sigh... such is life. Horrible to have to witness my baby girl learning such hard lessons so young though.
After filming the video, we took some time to explore the area. We went to the Rocky Zoo, and dashed around in between torrential rain showers. The kids got to feed the birds some live maggots and we got to watch in amazement as the chimpanzees ate with cutlery! They were rescued animals who had been reared with humans, so they are accustomed to eating that way. Their manners were almost better than Angus'!
We also popped over the Emu Park to check out the singing ship sculpture. Sadly it was drizzly and overcast, with not a skerrick of wind to be felt - or heard. Bummer!
Our highlight (well... everyone's except Lexie's) was going to Mount Etna National Park to view the Bat Cleft exodus at twilight. Every night tens of thousands of teeny tiny bats leave the cave to hunt for insects. They are much smaller than the usual fruit bat - about the size of your thumb and fly so incredibly fast that our iPhone cameras couldn't even catch them! It was a 3 hour night tour, with a 2.4km hike and we got to watch the most beautiful moon rise in the middle of it. It was absolutely incredible watching so many bats flying by. They just kept coming and coming and coming! They breed in this cave from December to February, and we were only the 3rd tour for the season. So lucky!
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