Day 61: Pender Bay (Day 1)

I told the kids the previous night that they were not allowed to get up and play until the sun was fully up and they had had breakfast. I forgot that they would take this as a challenge rather than boundary setting. So when I got up to watch the sunrise over the ocean Theo was up with me waiting for Arlo (from the neighbouring camp site) to have breakfast so that they could both head back and continue adding to their hermit crab world. It wasn't long before Olivia and Arlo's brother Henry also joined in. A bit later in the morning James and Max also joined the construction crew.

Once again the kids were down there for most of the day. Only coming back to camp when asked to put on sunscreen, eat snacks, and fill water bottles. Although we did drag them away from their creation for a swim at low tide off the northern beach.

John and I spent most of the day going for a walk along the beach, looking for humpback whales, catching up on reading, sorting through photos, and writing blog posts 🙂.

In the evening we had a movie night at our caravan for the kids to watch Ratatouille. We had 7 kids crowded around our little TV screen. We started pretty late, so they only got through part of the movie, with the promise to finish it the next night.