Photo by Hannah Bashor.
It rained a lot. Usually it didn’t last long or rain hard. Then we sang “my soul longs for you” by Misty Edwards at an evening service. For those who don’t know during the chorus Misty belts out “let it rain!!!” several times over. We did Misty proud and it poured – came down in torrents – for about 40 minutes. None of us had a rain jacket but there are garbage bags at Bagot… So we waited half an hour clad in black garbage bags in the pouring rain waiting for our bus. This is the moment after.
My team mates, (Tye and Chels. H), feet at East Point Beach. I took this photo for Chelsea H. because she’s trying to make a collage of images with the theme “beautiful are the feet”. I love the contrast between the red and white on the rocks and on my team mates feet. They’re both still proudly sporting their chaco and flip flop tan lines from the field work we did in Thailand.
Another photo of East Point Beach.
I feel like what I really need is a photo of one of the enormous bats that fly around here at night but I don’t have one so you’ll have to settle for a lizard I seen at crocodylus park. I have seen more strange animals here in Australia then in Thailand or Cambodia. I liked this photo because it doesn’t really look like this little creature is in a glass aquarium, it looks like maybe I snuck up on him in the outback and captured this image National Geographic style. I didn’t. He’s in a glass box folks.
Australia was a month dedicated to learning how to play guitar. Thanks to an unlucky occurance at the airport another member of our squad, Jake Morris, was not able to take his guitar on the plane and our teams were left with it for a month. Throw in one more guitar borrowed from the YWAM and you have full out jam sessions on the front porch.
Our team was not able to hold baby kangaroos like some of the other teams did this month but we did get to watch and hold baby crocodiles. This is a photo of the adolescent croc feeding. As you can see there is a hungery croc eyeing us up and a little kid with a fishing rod in the background. The announcer cautioned us to take special care when fishing in the waters around Darwin or we might accidentally end up with a baby croc in the boat ready to munch on our fingers.
Photo by Natasha Ritsema
And now it’s time to bid fairwell. Farewell to Darwin and all of the people in the Bagot community. Farewell to the comforts of a 1st world nation. Fairwell to all of the amazing YWAM-er’s at the YWAM Outback base. And fairwell to team Blue Sky… The seasons have changed and it’s time to embrace the joys and the blessings of a fresh new era.
