Thierings on Tour

Overnight the wind picked up a lot and it was howling, making for a rather restless night for me while the wind rocked the van and everything got sandblasted. It was going to be an interesting day.

It was still a beautiful sunrise over the dunes and the water probably felt warmer than the outside temperature…

Unfortunately, some suspicious sand tracks appeared under the car and van and I was really hoping it wasn’t mice. I had read about a couple of people at South Lefroy sighting mice though. 
Chris got the answer when he saw one under the bonnet of the car as he opened to check something and I found a packet of popcorn had been nibbled through the packaging in the car, so it wasn’t a good sign 😩

We were lucky to get in a morning snorkel and some some little sting rays and a baby reef shark. The wind picked up and made for very limited beach/water activities for the rest of the day, because the sand was just flying everywhere, blasting everything and everyone in the process. That was pretty lucky for me as I had a lot of work to catch up on and not having snorkeling as a distraction was a blessing!

It does however get a bit tricky when our mainly outdoor living van needs to be used as indoor living. We just don’t have enough space for everyone inside because the seating area has been converted to our storage area long ago. So it was a bit of human Tetris shuffling people from car to van depending on activities.

The low point of the day was when we were cooking dinner inside and I went to drain the rice outside, but instead I accidentally hit the release handle button on the pot and the whole lot ended up in the sand while the handle remained firmly in my hand. Waaaaaaahhh, after that I had an adult tantrum. 

Attempt number two was much more successful, but I swear everything takes 1.5 times longer to cook while camping because the stove is just that much smaller than home…

The orange tinged full moon looked magnificent as it rose though, so maybe we could blame the moon for the earlier mishap. Chris and I couldn’t even sit outside tonight because of the wind, so it was a case of hiding in the car with an episode of Seinfeld once the kids were asleep. I must say, it will be a novelty sitting on a couch to watch TV again, ha ha!

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