Having fun on our last day. We met two Aboriginal people named Delta and Nigel. They are apart of a clan that hunt and trade with the other clans. All kids when they are born in the clans are given a totem that can be any animal or tree. The totem stays with them forever. Nigel’s totem is an Echidna And Delte’s is a Dolphin. They taught us how to throw a boomerang and how to make a warning sound in a shell. 

   
   

Doing some more stuff.

   
   

Doing more activities in the house.

   
   

Here is what we have been doing over the last few days.

 Boogie boarding with Hugo! Thank you Non for helping make this happen.

  
   

It is Friday morning. We are going to a little town where we are going to have breakfast. We all explored the town. We went in one store and there was a friendly cat in a pot that I petted for a while. It was sad to leave him but we had to go home. In the afternoon we walked to Watego beach and stayed there all afternoon. Cole was sitting by himself and he spotted a long black snake behind him, so he ran to us and said there was a snake beside our towels. We went to the rocks again and I caught a crab that we took a photo of. After all the excitement it was time to go home. During the night one of my cousins arrived.

   
   

We were going to a diffrent beach called Watego beach. It was beautiful beach with lots of crabs and shells on the sand. There were tide pools and in one there were about 20 giant crabs crawling up the walls. Cole and I were able to catch one big crab but we didn’t bring a camera so we couldn’t get a photo. The crab was the size of my hand and was very angry with me picking him up. After we were tired and hungry so we went home and had dinner.

  

We were taking a long walk by the water at Clarke’s beach, heading to climb up to a raised viewing platform where you could see dolphins  jumping up and down in the surf. There were tide pools by the platform so I checked in them and found lots of fish and snails that were stuck on the rocks. When we were leaving I spotted a red starfish on a small rock under water. We thought it was a octopus because of it’s 8 tentacles and shape.

   
 

On Tuesday afternoon we headed to the beach where we found a little warm water pool made by the tide overnight. We discovered that the rocks were clay so we mushed it up and created a face paint that we put on ourself to look like Aboriginal people. They used the clay for war  and hunting. They were most commonly worn in sports and games. The colour of the paint is ochre.

   
 

Breadfruit is a type of fruit that grows in Australia but it is indigenous to the South Pacific. One Breadfruit can feed a family up to five people. A breadfruit feels like a freshly baked loaf of bread and tastes like a roasted potatoe. There once was a man named Bligh who went searching for a good source of food to feed the slaves in the Caribbean. He came across breadfruit and said he would bring trees of breadfruit to the slaves so he told his crew to collect as many trees as they could. It took them a month to do this and then they set sail for the Caribbean. But he was so bossy that the crew turned on him and put him in a long boat with his followers and set them to sea. They were out at sea for one hundred days before they found land. But the people didn’t like breadfruit. Below is a picture of breadfruit.

Where we are staying in Byron there is a gheko in our room that eats all of the bugs.

   
 

We arrived to Byron Bay on Saturday afternoon. It is located in the northern part of New South Wales. This is our final destination before we come home. We are going to spend most of our time at Clarke’s beach that is located right by our house. My cousins from Melbourne are coming to stay with us for a while then they leave to go back to Melbourne.

We took a Qantas airplane to Coolangatta airport from Sydney. It took a long time to get our luggage so Cole and Iplayed around with the cart. We rented a car and drove 30 minutes to Byron Bay. The next day we went to the beach and dug a deep hole and made a cool off pool.