Day 73 - Sighhhh
Monday, August 6, 2012 at 08:14AM You know when you do something or have a thought or feeling that just makes you feel good and you just relax & go Sighhhhh!? Well this is the place. For those of you who know your geography get a map & go north of Pt Hedland & then south of Broome and you will see a place called 80 mile beach. Otherwise known as Sighhhhh!
We did nothing today….Nothing Nothing Nothing!!!! Oh except for have a shower, eat a pie for breakfast, drive the magnificent Land Rover on the beach & check out the fishing fanatics, come back & just veg around the superb Trakmaster van. I read a bit of Robert G Barrett & Ness caught up on some non important work stuff(If you call budgets non inmportant…I know Sanjeeva and I don’t)…Oh and the 3 loads of washing ,sweeping and mopping more red dust out of the van. Yes I did nothing all day!!!, Annie was amusing herself by exploring the caravan site & also keeping passers by happy by yelling at them! She has this new thing where if someone goes past the van & they don’t pay attention to her she lets out this loud “Yelp” most people look around to see where this strange noise came from….She then laughs or smiles when they turn and look at her. She is already a very clever little girl but I am obviously biased!
Hey a special mention to Flick N, Ness & I were talking last night & for some reason we thought this would be the perfect place for you for a few months of the year Flick, there is sand & sun, a constantly changing social environment, always someone to chat with, you have the permanents & the casuals, some people come here for 4 months of the year & others like us come for a couple of days….I’d love to stay longer. So you would have your constant social group & also the new people that you could meet. Oh and of course there is the happy hour every night! We reckon you would fit right in here Flick, only thing is you can’t swim in the ocean…..Lots of bitey things!
It’s a great place though, we sit watching couples in their 70’s ride past tandem on a Quad bike! Yes a Quad bike, they load up their fishing rods, eskies, camp chairs & ride onto the beach and fish for hours on end. For the ones that don’t ride a quad bike there are 4wd’s & we saw a couple ride their bikes on the hard packed sand today!!! What an awesome place. If Ness & I ever want a place to just park our van for a few months & do nothing….This is where I’ll be coming to!
Although on the down side everyone here is enjoying themselves…. Some a little too much. They have cabins here that hire out, and this weekend is a long weekend in WA…..Last night there was a party in a few of the cabins across the road from us until well after 3am. But like I say, this place is just for enjoying! Only thing I would change is I’d bring my quad bike….. Bit hard to get around on the beach in my chair!
Hey the Jesus bottle is DEAD!....It finally has succumbed to the pressures of running my BBQ, the oven, stovetop & even the fridge some times! (Yes we have a gas powered fridge) yesterday we couldn’t get the hotplates to work & realised it was time to say goodbye to the Jesus bottle, 3 years of amazing service…RIP Jesus bottle! We changed over to our spare bottle and my challenge now is to make it last longer than the last one.
Ok answer this, especially to the male bloggies! Have you ever said to your wife or partner….”You look good in that top/dress/pants/whatever today” only for them to say to you “Yes, it has this gusset that keeps my boobs from sagging!” I mean do I really want to know that you need a gusset to keep your boobs up! Don’t get the wrong idea here, Ness has great boobs, and childbirth has been very kind to her…she doesn’t need a gusset or a girdle or a corset or anything, as she is gorgeous just the way she is….. So I don’t need to have a mental picture of what could be the case. Girls & guys, if your partner tells you that you look good, just smile & say thanks! Too much information can spoil it!
Met a really nice bloke today, now I don’t know too many people in wheelchairs, I’m a bit of a snob & I find that a lot of people in my situation have a “Chip” on their shoulder. But Merv is a wheelie and has been for 35 years, from what Ness & I can work out he is a Vietnam Veteran, he has been in a wheelchair for 35 years & he is 65 years old, Ness couldn’t help herself today when she met him she said “You look fantastic for 65” and he does, he looks fit & healthy, very tanned and the best 70’s side burns you have ever seen, he rides his quad bike on the beach to go fishing, he lives in the south of WA on 45 acres & he comes up here for 5 months a year just to relax & take it easy. He had such a good attitude & no chip on his shoulder, it was great to meet Merv, there should be more people like him.
Big shout out to DG, he is not feeling well this week & needs a bit of R&R, he is off to Qld soon so take it easy DG, rest up & save your energy for when Annie gets home, you will need it!
Reader’s replies
Have got no internet so cant check your responses!....Sorry we will reply from Broome
But just some questions
Egg how is the UK?
Pete the tyre man….Got lost lately? Get a new map book
Liz P…Haven’t heard from you for a while
The DeLanders…How is NSW?
Meredith, had any dreams of Wombats in dressing gowns smoking a pipe?
Heather & Georgia….Wanna bag me some more?
Brad A…. Day 6 mate, hope you are well. Keep up the good work!
Tereasa… I hope you have a flat tyre, lose your keys, have a computer meltdown & burn your dinner all in the same day…..Then it will be a different day to the same old same old!
Kirsten…how do you feel about horse racing?
Marg & Norm…. Stay warm…Hurry home
Celeste… Do do do do….Do do do…..Do do do do….Do do do…..to be hummed in the tune you know well
Arama….. I was trying to think of something clever in NZ to say, but there is not much clever in NZ! But you guys rock when it comes to gold medals! Putting the Aussies to shame!
Rob….. good to be back at work?
Granny how is your heater going?
Dave R…how is my yabbie going…YUMmmmm
Nikki…Charlotte has asked if you and Charlotte can drive over here together in the car…only 7000kms round trip!
Annie’s Blog
I had my Mum & Dad with me Alllllll day today, they didn’t have to work & had no silly internet thingy so they just played with me & spent the whole day with me. When Mum went to do the washing Dad was playing with me & when Dad went to the shower or loo, Mum was with me and the rest of the time we were all together playing, I had a swim in my mini pool, we went in Dad’s awesome Land Rover on the beach, we had lunch and dinner & brekky together…. How cool, I don’t like this work thingy that Dad has to go to…..Do any of my friends Mums or Dads have to go to this work thing???? I reckon we ban it and just stay together all the time!
My Dad has a copy of him! Today this man came to see us and he had wheels like my Dad, they talked & talked & talked, and they laughed too, my mum even told him he looked good! Careful Mum my Dad might get jealous!!!
Tomorrow we leave this place, I might see if I can try my trick in the car tomorrow and get my Dad to stop! Mum said we are going to Brush…..What a silly name for a place, we will spend a couple of nights in Brush!
Night All
Love from AnnieInAVan….XXXX
Reader Comments (5)
Hey team
Well if mother nature continues her wild antics in New Zealand, Australia might not need to worry about the chip on the shoulder regarding it and Aus Zealand could become a reality! After a couple of years of earthquakes there are now bloody volcanoes erupting! 114 years of being asleep and then BOOM! you never can tell what mother nature has in store. I wonder if the Australian government will welcome the refugees from New Zealand??? Be a lot more bat people hahahaha
80 mile beach - wonder if its as perfect as 90 mile beach in NZ? Sounds like it. Enjoy your rest team and keep up the good work xxxx
Do you even no what a gusset is dad, cause I don't but if it keeps peoples boobs from sagging then it has to be a good thing right????????
Hi guys
Eighty Mile Beach is awesome, spent time there in 1990 on the way around Australia, though by the sounds of it the caravan park has turned into a mini township. We just had sites, no power, some BBQs and the friendliest people ever. The sight coming over the ridge of the ocean is something I will never forget. either. We used to catch "little bronze whaler sharks" - is that still the fish of choice? Back then, the water was only knee deep for about a KM off the beach, very warm and salty and full of fish and 'little sharks". Try skinning a shark - it's ridiculous and the skin is full of ammonia. We caught them on hand-lines, ran up the beach hauling them out and then got the friendly blokes to do the skinning - they were experts at it and we weren't! Hope it hasn't been too over run by people. I am so glad you found it, I nearly emailed you, but thought it would be on your list as it's literally the only place between Pt. Headland and Broome! When you get to Broome, if you stay at Cable Beach caravan park and they still have a boom gate entrance, I demolished that with a mini-moke - accidentally - on that trip too! Took my foot off the clutch and BAM! we went through and then under it - it got very bent out of shape and so did the park owner! Broome was also the place I saw the 'Stairway to Heaven" moon rise over the mudflats that you saw recently too. Love reading your blog, miss you all, x Gosh Annie is getting so clever and big! x
No I have not had any dreams of Wombats in dressing gowns smoking a pipe - what YOU been smoking James?
Hmmm - is it a 'Jesus bottle' or is your memory cracking up James??? :-)