Everything that happened after the dangers of parking your ship next to a cliff, which I would have posted if my sites hadn't been playing silly buggers. Everything is okay now, which means I'll be posting about as much as I was inclined to post before.
Weird looking spider
Have I scared off the arachnophobes yet? It's okay, this is the only spider photo this post. I have no idea what kind of spider it is; I don't recall seeing it when I was growing up. Sprat seems to think it's fairly recently common.
These are all more or less straight off the camera (aside from any incidental modifications that happen because I resized them down to 500px on the long side from over 4000) because I'm lazy and currently trying to make presentable some lion dance photos I took under bizarro lighting that a complete non-photographer like me has no idea how to deal with.
Navy ship off the cliff above Lily Beach
South Point Temple flag
Christmas Island is full of temples in seemingly random locations (or at least random to me seeing as I don't know the reasoning behind why most of them were built where they were built). The one here at South Point is one of the larger ones (if not the largest). I'm not sure why I didn't take more photos of it. I know Josh has a few on film.
View from South Pt Temple, Josh asking whether Kampong is in the dip or around the visible point
The rain. It comes. Rapidly.
Mum loaned us her car. We drove through a phosphate puddle that was slightly deeper than anticipated.
Biggish hermit crab, with a 7yo boy hand for comparison
Baby red crab
Many baby red crabs trying to clamber over a building they eventually work out to go around
Moth that was quite happy to sit around for ages getting photographed
My parents decided to have the Chinese lion over this Chinese New Year seeing as there was a big group of us kicking around the house to watch this time round. We hung the ang pow somewhere the spotters could easily see it from the road, then moved it to a higher beam so they'd have to work for it.
Lion spots angpow and realises they will have to do a jump for it
Josh and the parents had of course taken prime photograph position on the end of the patio so I made do out in the garden. Consequently this was one of two decent photos I got. As far as the troupe went, there were a number of faces I didn't recognise, the rest were all kids I barely recognised from school. They had all grown up, strangely.
Impressive is watching a robber crab opening a coconut
Because having that ship wrecked on top of our port wasn't excitement enough, a cyclone hit a few days before we were supposed to head back to Perth. Kampong was warned it might be flooded and the residents put on evacuation notice. They battened down the doors and sandbagged the place. They've been flooded out a few times previously. Fortunately while cyclones aren't uncommon, ones that cause flooding requiring people to evacuate are. We headed over to the police station where the waves were kicking up huge sprays.
This thing is new to me. I think it looks cool.
Sprat in her standard observational pose (and not having a clue that I took this)
Mum and Cub run from salt spray, lens is getting covered in salt spray, Dad taking photo similar to one below
Last one I took after cleaning the lens. There was another couple that showed higher spray, the contrast was crap on them (I don't know if I can fix it, haven't tried, too lazy) and they were very blurry as the lens had a decent film of salt spray on them by that stage.
The cyclone cleared up in time for our flight back to Perth.
I miss Home already.