Transient Safari Art

In this hot weather, the kids (or at least some of them) like to cool off by hosing each other down in the garden (not quite as calm and sedate as that might sound...)

A development of this has been their discovery of the fact that by getting wet and then pressing various parts of their anatomy against the fence, they can make 'art'. This started with Caleb's inevitable discovery of 'bum prints', but has developed and become slightly more civilized. The result is what I like to call (for reasons that will become obvious) 'transient safari art'.

Here are a few examples:

I'm sure an art critic could find deep things to say about the symbolism of the extinction of species in fragile ecosystems, but I'll let you reach your own conclusions :)

Josephine falls

Today is Australia day, a bank holiday here and the last day of the summer holidays. We've had a great holiday but everyone is excited to be going back to school tomorrow. Yesterday as a final fling we went swimming to Josephine Falls. A natural playground with swimming and water slides south of Cairns. (The camera was not working very well so I only have a few photos)

We have basically spent the holidays swimming in the sea, swimming in pools, swimming in lakes in creeks and in the lagoon. We swam on Christmas day, twice and late into the night on New Years Eve. Good job our family is at its happiest in the water!

'Kindy'

It is still summer holidays until next Wednesday, but Ruben started Kindy this week. It is a bit like nursery. No idea why it starts a week earlier than school. He will go two days a week for now. The rest of us are getting ready for the start of normal school next week. Buying all the school supplies and madly labelling. We have had a nice holiday but after 8 weeks everyone is quite excited to go back to school again. There will still be time for swimming after school.!