Days 4 and 5 - Lady Elliot Island

Saturday 2 October

Today we left Hervey Bay for Lady Elliot Island! We flew on a tiny plane which only took 10 passengers. 

We were right at the back!  The first plane we got on had a problem with a door alarm, and we had to change planes. But we were only a little bit late.  And we were still right at the back.

We got off the plane and learned about the dangerous creatures of the island, and then went exploring.  We had lunch (a buffet!) and had a snorkel lesson, then we had a snorkel in the lagoon.

Our snorkel lesson with Nikki ...

 

And getting our flippers on for snorkelling in the lagoon!

We went for Island Whispers which is where you get a fruity drink for the first night, and also spring rolls (every night).  We played pool with a girl called Vella and Stella ate SEVEN spring rolls!

After dinner we went on the Night Stalk with our torches.  We saw tree frogs, and heard some spooky stories of the island ghost.  There is a graveyard on the island, and a lighthouse, and also an area called the “Chinese Graveyard”.  SCARY!

We got to bed late but it was a fun day.

Here is our house (we have both halves because there are 7 of us)

 

Here is the view from the front:

and here is the view from our room! We think it is the nicest room in the house.

Sunday 3 October

We started the day with a buffet breakfast.  Our job was to go to to the restaurant and choose a nice table which wasn’t too windy and would seat us all.  We got a nice table!  We both had eggs and then a fruit danish. YUM.

After breakfast we went to Reef Rangers, the island kids’ club.  We did tie dye with Justine and made bandannas. We have Reef Rangers badges and activity books.

Then Jane picked us up and we went to lunch.  Mya had chicken nuggets and Stella had fish and chips, and we had a mango and coconut drink afterwards.

After lunch we were pretty tired, so Jane read us some chapters of Matilda and then we went swimming in the pool, where we played with squirt guns and noodles.  At 3pm we watched the fish being fed outside our cabin, and then we went back to the pool.  We are having so much fun swimming!

Here we are in the lagoon outside our house.

We saw some buff banded rail chicks – they are so CUTE.