Milly's School Swimming Carnival

November 2013

Tagai State College - Thursday Island Campus

Interhouse Swimming Carnival held at T.I. Sports Complex & Pool...

Milly with her ribbon

Pre-Preps and Preps lined up for their pool noodle race...

Milly in action

P&C's Healthy Food Stall...

Kids enjoying the healthy food sold by Tagai Primary P&C

The P&C girls working hard.

A race in motion...

Lining up for ribbons & points after a race.

Camping at Bamfield, P.O.W. Island -->

We managed to fit in one more camping trip before the end of the school year...
* We went to Bamfield on Prince of Wales Island with 2 other families for morning tea & a swim in the freshwater waterhole.  The other families headed home for lunch & we set up our campsite just off the beach on the edge of the scrub.  There used to be 2 shelters visitors could use for camping or picnics, but an enormous tree came down in a storm earlier in 2013 & managed to crush both shelters in one go!
* It was very hot, extremely humid & raining on & off - so setting up was tough going.  The girls frolicked in a pool that got caught mid-beach when the tide went out while Dwayne & I huffed & puffed to set up our big tent & a camp kitchen.  
* We enjoyed dinner under the stars on the sand, toasted marshmallows in a campfire & slept with mozzies in the tent.
* Dwayne had to check on the boat regularly : a storm passed by out on the horizon as the tide was coming in so the waves in the little bay became quite sizable - & waves up here are never big!  He had to turn on the bilge pump at one point as the boat took in a few wave-fulls, but was otherwise unharmed.
* We had one last swim in the waterhole in the morning after packing up the campsite.  There had been enough rain to make the waterfall just trickle into the swimming area...very refreshing!

Everyone in the freshwater waterhole with the trickling waterfall in the background.  Bamfield, POW.

Our tent.  The girls.

The campsite with the squashed shelter in the background.

The girls and I having dinner on the sand.  Bamfield, POW.

The beach swimming pool - water caught from the receding tide.

Dwayne washing up in the collapsed shelter.

Dwayne's fire.

Marshmallows by moonlight...