Tuesday 22nd April
Yesterday was
action-packed.
We left Rebak
marina around 9am and made our way to Telaga, where we anchored in a nice bit
of warm shallow sea. Nicky and Pete
stayed aboard while Gavin, Hamish, Angus and I set off for a Seven Wells Waterfall
adventure. I told them that Pete and I
didn’t see one single living creature when we went up the many (MANY) steps to
the waterfall, so that they wouldn’t be disappointed. But we saw monkeys along the road from our
taxi, and then a whole troupe of spider monkeys or gibbons swinging high above
us in the tree-tops.
Hamish valiantly
took a photo of…the branches… The monkeys were too speedy for the camera.
The monkeys were all forgotten when the boys saw the seven pools.
The monkeys were all forgotten when the boys saw the seven pools.
The waterfeatures were a
resounding success.
Hard to say who
enjoyed the waterslide from one to another most…
I was amazed at
how long all three boys stayed in the water, rocketing down the slide in every
single position and configuration, clambering back up again, wrestling and
shrieking with joy.
I spent a lot of
time in the pools too but…much more sedately…
Eventually it was
time to drag ourselves away from the pools and to walk back down the many MANY
steps – we think there are around 450 but it is a matter for debate and
argument. Hamish was his usual calm and
cheery self; Angus kept us entertained with an erratic set of facts. Did you
know you are never more than three metres from a spider?
In the afternoon the
boys dived and bombed off the boat, paddled the dinghy to the little island
nearby, and hen had driving lessons from Gavin as they puttered around the Telaga
Harbour area picking up a huge amount of rubbish from the water and freeing a whole
lot of very surprised little fish from various plastic prisons in the process.
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| Climbing up the waterslide |
Today we hope to
go up the mountain with the cable car, unless there is a big fat cloud sitting on
the summit, as there was yesterday… And then back to Rebak for a bit of R &
R.
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