29th May 2021

The thunder finally came during the night fair bit of rain but not a lot of wind.

We woke to the normal ritual of coffee in bed then I  called Lola for her birthday.

Looking around where we camped there didn't look to be much in the way of water but we were intrigued at how the (swamp people faired the storm and tide). 

It was a good walk to start the day, we found the campers over the first dune was  getting inundated with tidal water as well as it just could not get away.

There was a young family there and the children were loving it, running through it, riding their bikes and pulling each other around on boogie boards, made me wish I was a kid again.

While we were talking to one of the older campers the father of the young family came up to show us a live baby sqid he had on his hand that he caught swimming past his caravan.

Before we got back to our camp it started raining heavy again, we got slightly wet, at least it isn't cold.

The rain got heavier and heavier and never let up, we tried staying outside under the awning but it wasn't long before the wind was driving the rain right in so we had to retire inside.

I put a dish out to catch some rain water to wash my hair in, I could have filled up fifty dishes, talking to one of the (swamp people) he collected 700 litres, some of them carry drums and elaborate things for collecting the water, I couldn't be bothered more stuff to carry