T O T A L    E C L I P S E 

we drove to Garthalala after work - a beautiful homeland about 3 hours away - We all slept the night on the beach so we could wake up at 5am and watch the eclipse happen ... which seemed like a bit of an effort at the time but in the morning as the sun rose and the moon eclipsed it then the effort was so worth it - the eclipse was so great, it was just awesome to be on a beach in Arnhem Land with only 15 people watching the world go dark again ... 

light to dark

solar glasses

and the sun reappeared and was amazingly bright

the gang

Bo tries hers on for size ...

and then we drove back home ... and went to work !

some photos of recent 

water slide b'day party

turtle man meets stick man

painting on the deck

jelly cake

Luke and Anita come to visit us on their way to nyc ...

we took them camping at Cape Arnhem 

there was a nice sunset 

some oysters, some rock pools

some visitors

Iggy points out the fish

Sailor spears them

Or that is the idea anyways ...

they stayed a week and I managed to take no photos after that aside from

these where Luke is teaching the art of bread making to wee Iggy

we had loads of delicious homemade sourdough bread !

(until the oven broke)

another Charles and Iggy photo shoot

we have so many photos of these two playing together on beaches tis ridiculous

well ya wouldn't believe it but we went out on the boat to an island paradise on the weekend, 

yep, saw dolphins, swam, drank some wine etc etc blah blah blah

this time we took some guests - 

including the glamourous Bianca

Danny the volunteer and Jamie

 Bec and Bo

 Joe

and Liyawulumu too, of course

but he counts pretty much as family these days

on the rocks

 sunset

was pretty nice I suppose