Neighbours

I noticed our previous neighbours Rob and Amy give others around us fish a couple of times. When I commented on how kind they were, Rob said "any time you catch a trevally fillet it and give it to your neighbours-they'll love you for it". Russ caught a good sized trevally last thing yesterday, so he did just that-giving it to the 7 kids camped behind us in a coaster bus.

There is 7 of them aged between Erin 22 and Trousers 31, 8 people own a share in the bus, 4 of them are away on this trip. They are off to Broome, leaving here Saturday. It also happens mum and dad (Boris and Janine)of the twins Mark and David are here for a week, and we met them too.

So, Russ gave them the fish, they gave him a beer for the fish, then Annika (Estonian girl) sent over some of her delicious Estonian potato salad for us, then after dinner all of us sat round and had a lot of drinks and laughs. Right now Russ and Trousers have taken the boat out fishing, then after lunch Russ will take Mark out for the afternoon shift. Hopefully they'll get more than the tiny taste of fish they got last night.

The bus is amazing. They bought it 4 years ago to drive to Sydney for Youth Day. They bought it as a shell and put in big padded seats in a "U" shape. All those seats fold out into beds. It has a huge built in Esky and they carry chairs and cooking gear in the boot. They eat off plastic plates or (for breakfast cereal) out of zip-lock bags. All very simple. They really are a nice lot of people and fun to have as neighbours for a few days although I wouldn't like to many nights like last night or too much more Estonian potato salad or I'd end up right back where I started weight wise!