Dear Family and Friends

Hope everyone is well. Just a brief update so that you know we are well.

We continue to relax here at Inskip point and enjoy the final days as we have decided that even though it is as lovely as it is we will move on after 1st Sept.

We have spent a lot of time socialising and have met some very nice people. We seem to do our own thing in the morning and mid afternoon come together for a coffee and chat. We seem to spend this time moving around to each van. Yesterday we had afternoon tea here at our van. (see picture). With us are Gary and Pat, Mike and Kath, Bob and Jan, Arnold and Cathy have already gone. We spend a lot of time laughing. Today we had afternoon tea over at Kath and Mike's van. Mike had done scones in their cast iron oven and they were delicious. Tonight we are all having tea with Kath and Mike as well. He is doing a chicken stew in the camp oven and as everyone is leaving at various days in the week ahead, we have made it as our last night together.

We have needed to get more water every other day and on our way home a couple of days ago we decided to check out what was further down the road. What we found was even more camping sites. It 's as busy as can be here now and this weekend seems to be even busier than last weekend. So we travelled down the road and as we did we realised that this was the road that leads to where you get on the barge to cross onto Fraser Island. The road became sand all too quickly and we realised that we were about to become bogged. Thankfully we were already driving in the tracks of other vehicles so Ken kept going forward hoping to eventually gain traction, and he did, until he tried to turn to early and too quickly. People are good, before we knew it we had someone beside us to help. After digging a bit of sand out from around the tyres and letting them down a bit the strap was connected and in no time Ken was pulled out and on solid ground. Next time we will be sure to let the tyres down before we actually get on the sand.

I have no idea where the two lots of people came from to help us Because we thought that the only ones about at the time were us and the chaps on the barges. I'm sure they have seen this many times before and were probably laughing themselves silly. I didn't look at them even once

to give them the satisfaction of seeing them laugh.

Next Morning......... We had a really lovely evening last night. We each took our own chairs, drinks, bowls and cutlery and we sat at the back of Mike and Kath's van overlooking the rising tide less than 30 long strides to the waters edge. It was a balmy night, perhaps one of the best nights that we have had since we arrived. we sat under palm trees and if you looked up it was as though you were looking up on lots of little flashing lights like you get when you decorate a tree for Christmas. We saw another really beautiful sunset with colours varying from pinks to purples.yellows through to reds and blues of every hue. We saw yet again dolphins frolicking in the water, a possum that ran right through our campsite and up the nearest tree and lastly the tail end of the fisher men as they made it home from the days fishing.

This morning we have run out of gas and this means we will have to do a run into town. The one bottle has lasted only two weeks and so we've switched over to our little spare but we aren't certain how much is in it.

The day is lovely, and temperatures have been between 23 and 28. I've been doing a walk along the beach each day and I can see the freckles coming out on my arms, and that only happens in the middle to late summer at home.

Time for me to go, ken has made me a cuppa and so I shall join him outside in our own little paradise

with love to all

Ken and Lyn