Farewell to Cal

We drove Cal up to Brisbane airport on Saturday for his 1420 departure to New Caledonia, where he is spending about 6 weeks with his friend, Tomas, who lives there and another friend, Rosin, who is flying in from the UK. Cal emailed us yesterday to day he'd already seen two sharks and a sea snake and a myriad of fantastically coloured fish. He will be happy! Cal comes back for a few days sometime in January with another friend of his, Margo, before he heads back down south. We are hoping to join up with him in Darwin in June or July next year.

On the way back home, we called in at Ikea, where Steve bought some natty little spice racks. One thing I don't understand is the fact that people buy plants at Ikea. I mean, really. We also called into a rather large pet shop at Nerang, where I bought a larger tank to house my rapidly growing rough-scaled pythons, as well as some native fish - four striped rainbow fish and a small catfish, for the pond in the deck.