Wednesday, 22 August 2012

Sailing with Oliver@ Lake Argyle

It was Aunty Janet's birthday but we couldn't go as we were going on a boat for the day. We drove in the borrowed car to Lake Argyle and looked at the dam wall and the hills from the lookout. We then went into the shop and watched a movie about how Lake Argyle was made. I liked watching them use the bombs to blow up part of the rocky hills to make more rocks for the dam wall. It was very good.
After that we went on a special bus that took us to the edge of the lake and we got on the 'Kimberley Cat'. The boat was really cool. It had a kitchen, 6 bedrooms with their own toilets, a table inside and 2 outside and lots of places to sit on the top of the boat. There was cordial and biscuits and cake out on the bench as well as fruit for morning tea.
We stopped later in the morning and everyone who wanted to went on a rubber motor boat to an island where we looked for our own piece of Zebra rock. There was a very smelly dead crocodile on the rocks. The man told us he probably ate a cane toad which is poisonous. There are about 30000 freshies in Lake Argyle.
I went back in the motor boat before mum and dad and when I got on the big boat it was lunch time. We had wraps which were yum.
Sometimes when we were sailing along you couldn't see land as far as you looked.
We met lots of people from all over Australia and the world. They were funny and I liked talking to them.
In the afternoon we swam with the crocodiles. The water was nice but the man said no crocodiles swim there.

We watched the sunset and the rocky hills changed colour. I got to help drive the boat back to shore. It was a great day.

2 comments:

  1. Hey Oliver, what a great day you had! I bet you would have love the film about blowing things up! I hope you found a piece of zebra rock to bring home too. eeewww, smelly dead crocodile sounds gross :P

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  2. Hi Ollie! I missed you at my birthday dinner. You would have enjoyed the dessert. I'm glad you're having such a great time. It looks like you have had lots of adventures! I look forward to hearing the next installment. Love Aunty Janet co

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