Tranquility

Welcome to the first installment of the camp experience...

Now camping with kids isn't the most peaceful experience, but it is still usually better than the hustle & bustle of everyday life.

When it came to the noise level, this camping trip definitely wasn't peaceful.

Here is a video of a Lace Monitor (otherwise known as a Goanna). It isn't a very exciting video, (sorry it's sideways but I couldn't help that) however if you turn the sound up as loud as you can, you will hear what we listened to all weekend.

That is the sound of Flying Foxes. Usually they are only this noisy at dawn & dusk, but this time there were so many of them fighting for space in the trees that they kept this up all day & all night long.

The only time this noise stopped was when it was raining so hard that the noise of the rain was as loud as the noise of the flying foxes had been previously. As soon as the rain eased up, the flying foxes began again. The worst of it was when it was only gently raining, because then we had both the noise of the rain AND the noise of the flying foxes.