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This is a diary of what I have done in Streaky Bay.

2/9/15

I got out of the car just like usual. I had to pull Scotia out to make the bed in the caravan with me. Finally we got in the caravan, but Scotia was so noisy that she was kicked out. She was only allowed to come back in when I finished doing the bedding. What a waste of moving and trying to lift a 25 kilo very annoying sister.

3/9/15

Good morning! I just sat up in my bed but Scotia had not got up. Yet still I decided to get up without her, because I was pretty hungry (I sometimes wait for her to get out of bed, but not this time). I got out of bed and urged Dad to make breakfast. I got on the computer. After quite a while, Scotia got out of bed. Then Dad said to Scotia “go outside” so Scotia obeyed. After quite a while Scotia came back and said “some people invited me to go on one of those go-cart thingies” and Dad said she could go as long as she took her helmet. So she did. After another hour I could hear the go-carts rumbling down the road.

This is a example of the go-carts, but this is NOT them and NOT the right caravan park

So I looked out the door at Scotia and one of her friends said “want to go on a go-cart with us?” I said “ok”, and then Dad poked his head out the door and said “your helmet”. I sighed in my head, but still got my helmet out of his hands. The first place we stopped (briefly) was the television room. There was nothing on the television. Because you could only have the go-cart for a certain amount of time, one of the go-carts had to be returned. We went back to the reception to return it, but remember we still had another go-cart. Then I realised that our friends had dummies that had lollies on them and looked like this:

When the last go-cart was returned, we went to the beach. After a while Scotia and Olivia (one of the friends) made a sand castle. After another few minutes I made a second sand castle with Scotia and Olivia because Riley (another one of the friends) had smashed the first one into bits.

4/9/15

Today Dad said we could go net fishing. It is using nets to catch fish.

I caught two fish that you could call white bait. Nobody got a big one though.

My adventure at Streaky Bay continues…..

I went to Albany. It has got to be in my top three of best caravan parks. The top three on our trips are :

1. Crescent Head (last trip)
2. Albany
3. Gold Coast (last trip)

The first interesting thing we did was make up a game. What happened was, we both had four shops and we used the sticks as money. Each stick was worth five dollars. My shops were gardening, electronics, supermarket and sports store. Scotia’s shops were candy, cafe, pet store and pet’s needs.

At this caravan park you could borrow DVDs. We watched the first Harry Potter on the first day we stayed there. It was the Philosopher’s Stone. We did that because they had all the Harry Potters and Scotia and I had already read all of them up to five.

The next day Mum, Scotia and I went for a run on the beach. I ran one lap and then I said to Scotia “do you want to play the playground game but on the beach?” She said yes so we drew boxes in the sand for shops. Scotia also did piggybacks for five dollars each. At the end of the day we watched another Harry Potter. It was the Chamber of Secrets.

The next day we went to the spa. It had heaps of bubbles. Scotia and I made bubble coats and bubble goatees. Scotia once had a really funny goatee even though I did not see it. Mum did and I trust my mum like you trust yours.

Spa

After that we went to play pool

I reckon Scotia was better than I was though.
The next day we did scrabble. I won by about 30 points. I was at about 130 points.

The next day we watched Star Wars. I thought it wasn’t very scary though.

We did all of the above because we tried to make the best of the rain and wind while we were at Albany.

We went to a alpaca farm yesterday. I thought it was just going to be a bunch of alpacas, but it had heaps of other stuff. First we saw the birds but because the guinea fowls (a flightless bird) made noise, we did not stay there for long. Next we went to the llamas. We fed one, but the other had weird teeth.

weird teeth

After that, we went into the kangaroo and alpaca enclosure. We were permitted to go into that space. A white alpaca got Scotia’s food and knocked it out of her hand. When we got out of that enclosure, Mum gave Scotia some extra animal food. Scotia then fed the emu. It took the food off her in a surprisingly cheeky way, so we decided to not feed the emu any more. We went down further and there was a crazy piglet and some other baby animals. After that we went even further and Mum did not give us much time at that part.  We started watching the joeys play, and they started getting a bit harsh (play fighting).

So next we fed the baby animals milk. I fed a lamb first. My lamb drank probably the slowest out of all of them. We fed a one-week-old lamb and a Scottish highland calf that was about one week old too. When we looked at the one-week-old lamb, it looked weird with its tail as lambs normally have these cut off. We fed the joeys, and the joeys were probably my favorite out of all the animals.

This place I am talking about is kind of like Scienceworks but better.

You could do all sorts of stuff like my favourite. It is like a maze, but harder, because there were four buttons to control its direction in a 3D way.
Cool hey?

Another display was when I was riding a bike, a machine said what I could power. I could power a lamp or an egg beater.

We also went to a show. It was amazing. It showed lots of things, for example when you put fire on a balloon it went crazy, and when you put light on a mirror it reflected, but when you had no light it did not.

That is what Scitech is.

This is another thing I enjoyed

THE END

In the morning I woke up from bed. Nobody was there, but I decided to get up and read my kindle. I read for about half an hour and then Mum came out and dad and Scotia. I stopped and looked at Mum with the computer, Dad reading and Scotia doing well… nothing much really. Then I kept reading and reading and reading for about two hours. After that, Dad announced that we were going on a ride, and we did that. While we were riding I asked where, and he said “nowhere” so we kept riding. I said “watch me do a wheelie”

This is a wheelie example

but he ignored me and we kept talking and riding and talking and riding until he finally watched me do a wheelie. He just said nothing much really, then we got to a lake. We stopped there and I ate, and then dad showed me a fireman’s lift. He lifted me up like he was rescuing me.

This is an example of a fireman lift

We started talking about what sport Scotia should do when we get back home.          Finally we got back then I did this blog post

The day before my BIRTHDAY I went to play golf in Kalbarri. I got about 42 metres each hit in one hole. That is nearly as big as an olympic swimming pool! On some holes there were ducklings.

I am keeping my eyes on the ball

When we were coming back, we went to the bakery and I got a donut and a sausage roll. Dad got a sausage roll and we brought a donut back for Scotia.

Unfortunately on my birthday we had to do some driving. But it was to a nice free camp. We saw two dolphins there. I had a chocolate mud-cake. It was a surprise.

After that we went to Jurien Bay which is where we are now. I saw a person walking a pig here. The pig’s name was Theodore and he was toilet trained.

Coral bay                                                                                                                                                      

The weather at Coral Bay was the best so far and snorkeling nearly the same ,while surf is not that good. The caravan park was average. The only bad thing about it was the shops.

Coral Bay

Exmouth

The weather was pretty hot, snorkeling the best, the surf  best for the kids and caravan park the best. The shops we did not go to.

Wil with whaleshark

snorkeling with my dad

Kalbarri
The weather was the worst we have had. The snorkeling and the surf were as bad as the weather. The caravan park was not good at all. The shops were not bad, not good.

Horrocks
The weather was quite cold and the caravan park reasonable.

horrocks

Port Denison
Port Denison had cold weather, and the surf was too big, and the snorkeling bad. The caravan park was great but the shops were expensive.

This was the last time we saw the Simmonds on the trip. We had a pancake breakfast. It was free at the caravan park. I ate 10 as big as my hand and on all of them I had maple syrup and lemon juice. They were all delish.

On May the 20th we drove to something that is named the Bungle Bungles in WA Australia.

It is one of those really famous things that are old (that is why we went). It is probably older than your great-granny. I don’t think the walk was worth it, because we couldn’t swim in the water. It was stagnant.

But I did enjoy the creek crossings on the way, on the 4wd trail.

These are some photos

A bird