Left: I walked out of the door of the room backwards, so as to lock the door. I heard a loud enough hissing noise. Only a metre or two away, this snake's head was up pointing towards me. I thought I was just about to get bitten, and maybe die, instinctively jumping away, heart thumping. He slithered on, tranquil.
On the 21st we were in Lancelin in the youth hostel, after arriving late from the Pinnacles last night.
Day one we just went for a walk around town. Took it easy in the afternoon followed by a trip to the sand dunes at 4.30pm. Hired some sand boards, very similar to snow boards, from Timmy the sand board man.
Kids had awesome time.
Decided to do it all again in the morning, this time with Marie as well. She was going fine, but I made her crash and bruise her leg. Then she had a blow out sitting down, deciding she'd had enough sand in her underwear, hair etc. Me and Ollie kept on until about midday.
Lunch on the road. Saw sign to Gin Gin Gravity Centre, hauled on brakes to make the turn. Ollie absolutely refused to leave the car: why are we stopping here? Once out though, there was a fountain which balanced plastic balls in its water spout. Ollie and Louis were off on all the displays; larger foam balls also doing the Bernoulli dance but in a vertical fan air stream. A very long spring to show longitudinal and lateral waves, several black hole stands, a time line of the history of everything, galaxy videos. We dropped balloons from a 40m leaning tower to replicate the Galileo experiment.
Both boys gave it the big thumbs up. The favourite was rolling marbles into the red black hole display.
Any kind of life beyond microbes is a recent thing. For about 80 percent of our history, nothing happened, then trilobytes and this kind of thing evolved in the oceans.
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