Today was a bit of a ‘blah’ day for me – probably hormonal which didn’t help. We had a slow start to the day and I decided the kids probably needed to do a bit of schoolwork today. It was hard motivating the kids to do their schoolwork. It all seemed to be happening very slowly. Eventually Michael stepped in to help with maths for Hannah and Lauren – he could see that I needed some time out from trying to motivate them. They finally got through the work we wanted them to do by about 11am.

We then headed off to see some of the sights. There were a couple of interesting giant fig trees to visit. One was called Cathedral Fig and one was called Curtain Fig. These trees seeded on the branch of another tree quite high up and their roots started growing downwards towards the ground. They have quite large root systems and the result is an amazing structure. We went to see the Cathedral Fig first. It was great, but I really was feeling out of sorts today and getting annoyed at little things. So I asked if I could go back to the caravan while Michael took the kids sightseeing. We had been going to do the ‘waterfall circuit’ and see some of the many waterfalls around there. We’d packed the swimmers in the car in case any of the children had decided to brave the cold water.

So Michael dropped me back to the caravan and I was able to rest and have some down time to myself. The others did the waterfall circuit and Hannah and Beth had a swim in the Malanda Falls – but only stayed in for 5 mins. They came back not long before dinner. They’d had a nice afternoon, which was good.