The long weekend

The Queens Birthday weekend Nige and Keith (Renee's dad) did a 3 day canoe trip along the Murray up near Barmah. While they did that Renee was home with the kids for the 3 days. Just as well as it was one trip Renee did not want to go on. Renee has a fear of water sports, plus it was too cold.

Storytime. "The first night at home as daddy was not hear to read to us, l had to stand in and take his place and read the story to my little sister" says Nate " Mummy was kind enough to take us to the library that evening and get some new books for us to borrow".

Playtime


Seeing Renee's mum also known as nanny (to Nate and Tahlia), was home on her own for the weekend. We took her along with us to the Animal Park down in Bass near Philip Island for a day trip. It was a good day and the kids had a ball with the animals even with the small accident or incident with one of the native animals in the park. That did not even dampen her spirits on the day.

Wombat.

It was quite amusing as when we got there, we must have been one of the first people to the door. When we got to the kangaroos we could not even get into the gate as 2 males were there and trying to get to our bag of pellets for them. The kids thought it was quite amusing, Renee thought it was amusing comparing the size of the roos to little Tahlia, where Nanny was a little concerned for the grandkids.

"Can we take this wombat home" asks Nate.



Come on come on wheres the food.... l'm starving.


This roo was quite cheeky and even took the food out of Nate's hand and ate the paper and all. Nate laughed and said " mummy the kangaroo even ate the paper"..

Nanny and Tahlia. Here we are with Tahlia's new friends. She had no fear of these giant kangroos and happily chased after them wanted to be with them.



Baby tawny frogmouth and mum.

Tahlia and friend.

Lunchtime with friends. (this is just before another little wallaby came along and attacked poor little Tahlia). It was fighting another one at the time and Tahlia just got in their way. I suppose her being at the same height as them they got a bit confused. But she was fine a little shaken and with some scratching to her face.

Koala (took a while to try and find these).

Milly the Orphanged wombat and her carer.

Hairy Nosed Wombat. (there are not many of these left in the wild in Australia)

After our trip to the park we thought we would check out Cowes on Philip Island and take a walk on the beach, seeing the sun was out and it was a lovely day. Not even a breath of wind. Which was odd as usually when we are down there it is cold, wet or windy. So we made the most of it.

One cool little dude.

Till next time. Stay safe.