Day 9

Tuesday 26th May

After a busy day yesterday a day of rest was definately in order. It was a good job we had done the mountains the day before as there was heavy cloud and we wouldn't have seen a thing today. After a bit of rain in the morning the weather cleared so the boys donned their wet suits and we headed down to the lake. The plan was that the boys could have a swim but they were rather wussey and only got in up to their chests. The dam!

We headed back to the caravan, had lunch and were just chatting to some newly arrived Brits when it started to rain again. We got everything inside the awning and it was a good job too as a major storm blew in which before our eyes destroyed the awnings of several of the people on our campsite and we later discovered had affected parts of Holland, Germany and Switzerland! It also blew a baby bird from it's nest in the tree above our caravan. We put it under the caravan to shelter from the rain and wind and it was gone later so hopefully it got back to it's mum. Following the worst of the storm we had heavy rain all through the night. We did feel sorry for the two young Americans sleeping in a tiny tent!