Turtles, Turtles Turtles

Turtles Eh?

So It's that time of year for the turtles. Time to get together and do the birds and the bees thing. The turtle Stalk.
I say it like it's something Blase but it's something incredible to experience. No not the Turtles in union but the aftermath. When the female comes ashore to lay her eggs.

We scoped it out after doing a little research and headed down to a place called Jurabi Beach, or Turtle Beach which is on the West side of the cape, about a 30-40 minute drive.
Holly said..."We have to go there, that's where the turtles go to lay their eggs", we later confirmed that they didn't just go to that one beach, they went to the whole coast. Wayne summed the comment up perfectly by saying "Is there a special beacon on that beach that makes them all come there?" hehe...Silly.

So we went down about an hour before dark and looked around, saw some turtle action going on and decided that that would be the place we would come back to. After dinner and just after dark we headed over and not a second after setting foot on the beach we had a girl rush up to us telling that they were watching a turtle, please be quiet she said in her German accent.
We headed over and though there were stars in the sky the moon wasn't, so all we could see was a dark shadow flicking sand out of its nest. How cool! It's surreal being that close to what is probably a myth to all of us who don't live near warm waters. Very cool indeed. We did take a sneaky photo with flash when the German's had gone to capture the moment, I think Mrs Turtle was a bit busy to care.

Here is the turtle, we didn't want to get too close, her head is facing us. We will be heading down for an early morning visit soon as they will soon be hatching. Very exciting :)

We're moving out of our house-sitting house tomorrow, Tuesday as the American family is coming back from their holiday. Our last move in Exmouth before we leave, and we're heading to Karijini on the 17th.

Other than this there is not a lot happening in our little world, we're just existing and looking forward to the next moves. Stephanie may possibly be making this blog a true "Holly and Steph" blog again as she might be joining us in Bali while we're there, From what we can see Bali looks amazing. Temples, Monkey forests, snorkelling etc...and cheap hotels! Good times.

I think that's all for now, we'll check back in when something interesting happens,
Ciao for now,

David & Holly (David Eating a Smore and Holly's thumbs up at finding a nesting turtle)

Shoplifter

Hello Blogfans,

It was last week, tuesday I think when I, David walked into work and was hussled into the office by my boss and his boss and asked to explain a piece of video footage that made it look like I was stealing something.
It looks really bad but I can explain was my response, though they didn't want to rewind the tape and see that the item I was 'shop lifting' was actually a Bakery bag with a creamy pastry in it given to me by a friend of mine on her way to a progressive dinner at church.

What a day that was! We went above the Boss and got in touch with the shop owners and got them to make him review the tape, and so I got a call a few hours later with my job back and an apology. 

This really got us thinking and I think made us appreciate what we had here and what we needed to do before we left, consequently we are going to Karijini National Park on the 17th of this month for 5 days, returning to Exmouth for a few weeks and then heading down to Perth to see our Australian surrogate family for christmas.

We had a very busy few weeks between moving out from our friends' Catherine and Waynes house, we moved into a small house near our work and spent pretty much every day and night doing something.
We then moved to the house we're currently in to house-sit for and seemed to stop. I think it was so nice for us to be able to stretch out and relax without causing any inconvenience to anyone. It's been great.


I think we're ready for the next and pre-final part of our Australian trip, Karijini - Perth/Farm and then on the 3rd of January will be flying to Denpasar in Bali and spending 10 days there having a look around, seeing some rice paddy fields and some lush tropical scenery. After that we head to Jakarta for the night on the 13th then make the trip to Manchester, UK via Doha in the UAE, How wonderfully exciting and very very sad :(
We've both warmed very much to Australia but it will be good to have a change of scenery maybe.

One surely cannot live in a perfect 36 degree climate for ever...Wait..Maybe one could. 'Holly....Can we cancell our flights and stay...' You've seen how much fun we've had the past two years, but we'd make fun wherever we go. It's not where you are, it's who your with and what you're doing.

Untill Next time,

David & Holly

Different Language

Well we said that we would give you a blog overload and we have definitely failed.  This is probably the busiest we have been since we started travelling around Australia.  It's like being back at home.  Yikes.  The weather has been hot here, 30s every day.  Some days I feel like the air conditioner in the house is broken.  It probably just cannot compete with the heat.  

Let's tell you about some of the interesting things.  The other day, Sam took David spearfishing with his new spearfishing gun.  The guys around here are huge into it.  Some of them can hold their breath underwater for like 8 minutes.  I would see a big fish, panic and that would be the rest of my breath gone.  When you spearfish you free dive (so without any apparatus) and sometimes you will see sharks and snakes....Or if you catch something you have to be able to bring it back up to shore as well.  Definitely the non-lazy way of fishing.

As always, immigration/government has decided to be annoying.  The school here had asked me to teach here with a contract for a bit until the end of term.  This meant having to get my visa extended (long story, boring to tell).  Immigration said they would get back to me in 5 business days and it has now been like two weeks.  I have been calling them heaps, getting a new person every time.  I finally gave up.  So my last day of teaching was on Tuesday.  I will be going back to working full time hours at the IGA.   I will miss teaching.  I loved every minute of it.  The last class I was teaching in was a Pre-Primary class (that is kindergarten back home). I was teaching them how to say the letter 'o' and when I came to orange, I said it different from the kids.  One of the boys piped up and said, "that's because you speak a different language!" talking about my accent.  I thought it was pretty cute.

Halloween is celebrated here in the town of Exmouth because without the American influence there would be no town of Exmouth.  Saying that, I did not get candy (or as they say here 'lollies') ready for the kiddies.  We only ended up getting 3 kids anyways.  Sounds like all the kids were out and about getting their lollies though.

I think we will stick around here for a few more weeks and then it will be time to say our goodbyes and travel a bit more, see Australian family for Christmas and then head on our merry way back to the freezing...

That is all for now.  Check back again in the next few days as we will try to have a blog here every day until we leave the house we are housesitting at.  Hopefully get caught up on the well overdue photos as well.

Holly and David