Quick summary of August 3-6

At the time of writing it's August 7 about 8am and I'm in Weipa. We have signal so a quick summary of what's happened.

Monday we organised the springs. They're coming from Brisbane via Qantas Freight and are supposed to be in Weipa Thursday. The rest of Monday was a quiet day doing school work.

Tuesday we took the opportunity to drive along parts of the Old Telegraph Track! This was an unplanned event but given we were stuck without anything else to do it was worth doing. It was a very interesting experience, with some lovely isolated scenery and a couple of river crossings, the day finishing with some delightful swims at Fruit Bat Falls and Eliot Falls.

Wednesday was another quiet day around the camp site. Kids are having a great time entertaining themselves. Boys have made their own version of the Old Telegraph Track in the dirt with hills, tunnels, ditches full of water, even their own version of the Jardine River ferry!

Thursday we were told the springs were arriving so drove down to Weipa, did some shopping, I did some work (yay mobile signal again!), but then found the springs had been offloaded and weren't coming until Friday morning! So we stayed overnight at Weipa Caravan Park in a cabin. Evening cool off with a swim.

And here I am Friday refreshing the tracking page, hoping to goodness the springs leave today! At least there are two flights to Weipa today so if it misses the morning one there'll be time to ring them to make sure it gets on the midday flight.

-- Greg