Book week and sunset

Today was the end of book week and Hamish and Xanthe went in to school in fancy dress as characters from their favourite books.
Hamish went in as a pirate..

trying to get him to look piratish was quite tricky.
Xanthe went in as Alice..

Cameron was not in school today but still wanted to get in on the picture..

Hamish won best boys costume and his prize is a $10 book token and Xanthe won her class prize of a "snee" for those uneducated ones among our audience search Dr Suess to discover what this is.

Having been out yesterday evening we decided to make it two in a row and we had our first supper at East Point for several weeks to watch the sun go down.

Tea was sausage stew and french bread - very nice too.

Whilst waiting for the sun to set the children set up a hermit crab nursery - there were hundreds of the little buggers most of whom are probably quite grumpy now as my three must have moved most of them away from their own patch!

The sunset was worth waiting for..

On the way home we were side tracked by at least five calling Large-tailed Nightjars, one of which we saw quite well but it got flushed just before I could get a picture. For the next 30 minutes we could hear them calling (often from very close by) but we could not see them!
Weekend tomorrow and guess what Tish is on nights!!