I thought that it would be nice to show you the house we are staying in at the moment.
We are staying in a house on site at AIMS and this means that Ronald can just walk to his job in 3 minutes and we can walk to the ocean and the beach in like 10 minutes. If the wind is right we can hear the waves hitting the shore from our house.
Our house is the last one, our view is the forest and we see cockatoos and kookaburras flying over and sitting in trees all the time, we can hear curlews and parrots and in the afternoon the wallabies come to graze on the grass. One of the kids favorite new animal is the gecko, we have a lot of them in the house and they come out in the evening, they are just beautiful creatures and its amazing seeing them walking on the wall and ceiling.
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| Can you find the gecko? (above the door near the ceiling) |
It is truly wonderful here and we feel we are much more in contact with nature here.
A big downside of being so close to nature are the mosquitoes, on some days they really drive me nuts and I feel like getting eaten alive.
Another thing here that we had to get used to is the fact that it is a state of the art research facility and that means big fences and gates and guards. We have a special key to be able to get in and after hours a guard passes by every hour just to check everything.
Today it was a special day, it was Open Day, for the first time in ten years (we are very lucky!) they opened the whole place up and for us it was great to be in the middle of the action for once!
There was even a big kids area with a jumping castle, rocking boat, balloon animals and face painting.
Another thing I loved was a play performed by researchers about the threats to the reef. Ronald's host Mike was playing a crown of thorns starfish, he was awesome!
But it was also nice to see all the cars and buses and thousands of people leaving again and get our rest back :-)
So back to the house, I made a little film of our house (on a normal day...) that you can watch here.
I started out filming some wallabies who were eating next to our house, but it turns into a tour through the house!
Tomorrow we are leaving for Cairns for a holiday, so more about that next time!
Some pictures of today:
3 comments:
Wat leuk om te zien waar jullie zitten! Het is een mooi huisje! Volgens mij bijna net zo groot als in Zweden. Ik zou bijna langskomen :-)
Groetjes
Sam
Ha, ha, showen hade ju verkligen satsat på kostymerna! Imponerande :) Kul att ni lyckades pricka in er tid där just när de genomförde en Open Day!
Hoppas att ni får det riktigt bra i Cairns. Om Woolshed finns kvar, är det ett riktigt roligt ställe att äta på. Fullt av högljudda back-packers när jag och Tim var där, så kanske inte helt barn-vänligt vid närmre eftertanke... Vi cyklade till Botaniska trädgården lite utanför Cairns. Väl värt en utflykt! Men håll utkik efter wild bors, de ska ni akta er för. Vid stranden simmade pelikaner när vi var där :)
Ska ni vidare upp till Cape Tribulation?
Hoppas att ni har mosqito nets till sängarna, så att ni åtminstone får sova ordentligt!
Kram till er alla! Jag är verkligen tacksam att du tar dig tid att berätta om ert stora äventyr <3
Leuk om jullie zo te kunnen volgen, zo te zien hebben jullie het wel naar de zin. Veel plezier en avonturen verder!
Victor sr
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