A perfect day

Yesterday was an absolutely perfect day.  I will always remember it.

We awoke (on our 10 year anniversary) to the sound of bouncy thuds as the family of kangeroos gave us a second visit on their way back after a night on camp.  We couldn't believe we got to see them not once but twice.

We had breakfast back in the restaurant and I had the special which was poached salmon, herby scrambled eggs and home grown asparagus while rob had poached eggs, bacon, spinach, mushrooms and tomato (I have to include details of the food as its an important event in each day, although definitely not the most important of this day.)  We then got a lift into town for our whale watching trip.

I have never been whale watching and didn't really know what to expect on the boat heading out away from the coast.  It was about half an hour before the captain spoke to us and told us to start looking out for signs of them; splashes and high squirts of water.  Before long we'd caught sight of a mother and her calf and headed in their direction.  The boat is allowed to go in their direction but not follow them if they start moving.  We were lucky enough to get a few hundred metres away before they did start to move on and we'd had lots of tantilising glimses of hump back fins.





The next couple of hours flew by and we saw 12 whales in total!!  And not just their fins; at one point one of the calves jumped high out of the water and came crashing back in, one of the mothers turned up right in front of the boat and scared the driver to bits and another whale spent about 10 minutes on its side slapping the water.  The experience was phenonenal and I loved how it reduced everyone on the boat to gasping awe struck children.

After our overwhelming morning our plan for the afternoon was to borrow a canoe from the camp and take the packed lunch we had been provided with down the creek for a picnic.  A calm non eventful afternoon I had thought, little did I know....... It was lovely and warm and the creek was beautiful and completely peaceful with lots of birds about but little else.  We journeyed down for about 40 minutes before mooring up on a little beach and setting up for lunch.

It was here that romantic old Rob proposed.  It was beautiful and so much fun and the sunny muddy creek was the perfect setting.  We drank Victoria Bitter out of tin mugs to toast to us and all the fun that is yet to come.  Rob proposed with a fancy looking (but not too riskily expensive) travel/holding ring (although he shouldn't have told me as I was convinced) to last until we're not moving about.  So we still get to choose a ring in Japan or in London when we get back. I am a very lucky girl, and well done Rob.

Back at the camp we upgraded our celebratory toast to a bottle of champagne (or the south australian version anyway) and were treated so sweetly by the camp staff and another couple who we met and chatted to.  We had another amazing dinner in the Gunyah restaurant before heading, exhausted, to bed.