Day 4, CT

This is the view from the plane on the way into CT.

This is the view from the house in the morning.  The sun dips behind these mountains at sunset.

This is what sits on top of the neighbours house and wakes me at 6am to see the above view.  They're called Egyptian Geese.

Settling right into this CT experience.  Had another day of playing soccer with the kids.  A good high scoring game: 7-3 for the bad guys (i.e. not my team).  The kids are really into it, and really good.   Every time I see the kids play I am simply amazed at how good they are at playing.

I’m trying to set up a skateboarding programme for the kids.  Apparently, the programme that was advertised on the website isn’t running anymore because the public was complaining about where we were doing the programme: on the beach front boardwalk.  I went to talk to one of the local shops (who have been so supportive of the kids) to talk to them about using their mini-ramp for one or two days a week for the skateboard programme, but they are going through some repairs and asked me to come back in a week.  In the meantime I’m going to go out and source out a tennis court or basketball court (not many of the latter) that we could push around on.

Yesterday, I made it out to see the penguins.  These guys are not all that big.  Unfortunately I didn’t add any point of reference in the pix to give you an idea of how big they are.  Size of a house cat, but much rounder (depending on the house cat), and smell badly.  You probably would too if you had a diet of fish.  These guys were very used to humans, but you wouldn’t want to put your finger near them because they like their space.

On our way out to the penguins we saw a bunch of southern right whales.  It’s mating season, and they’re in the bay for some brown chicken, brown cow.

No waves today, so I didn’t surf.  Yesterday, before the penguins was very nice in the water.  I was out for three hours, and because it is a beach break I was exhausted and couldn’t make it out for an afternoon session.

Meanwhile, Mel is holding baby lions and saving domestic animals.  Sounds like Mel’s enjoying herself so far.