Day 31 - Great Keppel Island, by Emmy

This morning, Tilly, Jess and I slept in to about 11, and we were woken up by the 2 little blond kids again and another adult, they shouted out hello but we didn’t think it was anyone in our yard. They ran around the yard looking for the goat and they found Bill laying down with it, they patted it and played with it. When they finally left they told us that they would be back later with their parents.

Us three eventually headed over to get breaky because there was 10 minutes until they finished. When we got there the others we sitting with some other people including Bec and her friend. Once we finished eating dad took Bec and her friend to go see the goat while Bill, Tilly and I went with Charlie (Pete’s wife) to go get the kayaks . The kayaks that we were going to use were Pete and Charlie’s and they said that we can use them for the day. We towed them down to the beach and took the wheels off. After we got the others and put our swimmers on we went in the water. Tilly and Bill went first and nearly went out to the other island and on the way back they saw a massive stingray we swapped people and we stalked the stingray until it got to far away. The tail on it would’ve been about a 1.5m so about as tall as Adelaide. We played on these for a while and then Dad decided to go hire to stand up paddle boards. We spent hours trying to tip each other off luckily the water was very clear and it only got up to half the size of the paddle. We saw heaps of fish and another stingray. Towards the end dad found a massive crab that was blue and purple and it only had 1claw. Dad chased it in to the sand and scooped it up with his paddle. People came over and took photos of it, then we watched run away.  

Stingray 

We started to head home and gave the kayaks back to Charlie and on our way we saw another echidna walking through our yard and outside it. Tilly and Bill followed it as it walked down the path. Tilly and I also played on the sand bags for a while.



When Dad and Adelaide were taking the paddle boards back they saw another stingray but it was much bigger than the other ones.The tail on this one would’ve been as tall as Bill.  After we showed Charlie the goat we went and had tea. 

We all watched the sunset and Bill and Paddy played footy while we waited for tea.

We ate tea and soon went to bed.

This is where Keppel, the goat, is sleeping so people can’t steal her or hear her. She is in a milk crate.

GOODNIGHT