Satuday

Woke up this morning and decided to go and have breakfast with Marnie and David (Their last morning)
Went to the Barracks Cafe (Run by Captain Don O'Donnell, whose previous job was Harbor master at Port of Portland in the last 80's early 90's, gee its a small world), and ordered breakfast, only to be told,
Oh, by the way there are no eggs on the island, so all breakfasts will be with out eggs, the breakfast was nice, but no eggs is a bit hard.


Then we took Marnie and David  to check in Marnie's luggage, and Dave put in the "I need to get off the island with my girl friend, are there any free seats" story, and was told, "no not yet, we will give you a call."

So Marnie checked in her luggage and we went for a drive with the kids.

Went down the to Ella beach and took a walk we hadn't done for about 1km along a boardwalk, came out with a small viewing platform on the clifftop from where we could see heaps of fish swimming around in the sea. Was very nice.

After that we took the kids up to the swimming center, so they could have a swim while I dropped Marnie off at the Airport.

On the way, David got a phone call and was told, "yep we can fit you on," so that made everybody very happy.

Turns out they couldn't fill the plane up with people due to the lack of fuel at Christmas Island, but the pilot had radioed that they had used less fuel than expected, so they could take extra people back.

While we where there a cargo plan from Perth arrived, and we noticed heaps of vegies and stuff being unloaded, so as soon as the boarding call was made, I high tailed it down to the local shops and got there just after the delivery truck from the airport.

Picked up a lettuce, some tomatoes, cherry tomatoes,  strawberries and eggs. Only cost $38 for all that!!!! The lettuce was $12 !! We won't know ourselves once we get home. (Although not sure how much lettuces cost on the mainland ,after the floods)

Anyhow, we are off to the movies tonight, provided it doesn't rain (its outdoors on the side of a hill)