Day 5 - Sunday 6th August

Desert Critters or City Slickers


Sunday morning started off with a walk up the hill to admire the sunrise from the cross. We were able to view the whole of Santa Teresa from above, including spotting a few mobs of brumbies. Then it was a trip back down the hill to get our Sunday best on for mass. First look in the church took our breath away. We were all mesmerised by the murals painted from floor to ceiling along the walls. Each telling a story which we later discovered from Sister Liz. 

We met the priest, Father Bosco, who we all quickly grew to love with his fun sense of humour and acceptance of everyone no matter who they are. Father Bosco wasn’t the only one we all soon came to love with Chloe, Steph, Georgie, Ben, Clay and Tahlia running with open arms to his little sidekick Lyabo. By his wagging tail and big grin we knew the love was mutual. We also went and had a lovely morning tea at the Brothers house and introduced ourselves to some of the locals in the community.

We started the preparations for tonight’s campout only to realise… well… there is no easy way to say this… Chloe left the stew on overnight. It got a good 12 hour slow cook much to our amusement. We managed to save most of it, not a lot got burnt.

We continued to prepare ourselves for the campout that night, we organised the rest of the food and got together our backpacks. Tahlia and Clay went and gave Brother Paul a hand with getting together the swags, and once they were back we set off for the camp spot. And of course we didn’t forget Pablo, who was definitely coming to join us on our camp out.

Camp was set up about 5km out of the Santa Teresa community. It didn’t take long for the boys to get a fire started. For sunset we all went for a trek up a nearby hill that gave us a beautiful 360 degrees view of the land surrounding us. Here was where we met two young local boys who came to stay with us the night, Little Brycey and Stony. After an exchange of strawberry chewing gum Clay and Little Bryce became BFFL’s. Brycey’s older sister, Dannica, also came along to the campout. 

Milan and Danni bonded like two peas in a pod. The rest of the night was filled with hunting out lizards from under pieces of scrap tin and car bonnets, chasing Chloe and Steph with ‘spiders’ which amused Clay very much, chatting and sharing stories with one another and overall having a great time.

Later on we all got into a bit of a food fight with minties and marshmallows being lodged over people’s heads and into each other’s swags. Half an hour after everyone had hit the hay Clay was left wide awake trying to scrape a pink marshmallow off of his swag and jeans.


Tonight we leave you with the question… will we all survive the cold? 







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