Adventures at the rock pool

Saturday we went to the rock pool to explore. John joined us a bit later. He brought the camera so this is his picture of us down there. I am not sure you can tell that with such a small photo.
The tide is coming in. But you can problably tell this is a hole in a bed of rock that will with ocean water. There has been concrete walls added to create sides. It is very clear and you can see the marine life below. The day is a bit cloudy so the pictures are a bit dark. Sam is heading in to the "pool." Kait is standing on a rock bed just below the surface.
This is Sam "snorkeling" with goggles. He was able to see sea anemones, small fish, coral and sea weed, clear jelly fish.
Kait is showing off her treasure. A black and white shelled sea slug--a total guess at the name, but that is what is looked like.

Friday evening we went to our church. There was a mass and BBQ to celebrate the feast day of St. Francis Xavier. The mass was performed by the bishop. After mass Fr. Ron introduced us to the Bishop as the Americans. I had to come to Australia to meet a bishop--besides confirmation, of course. The bbq afterward was nice. Just meat sandwiches (not sure what kind of meat--I thought beef but there was discussion of pork, lamb even goat???) on a french bread roll wrapped in paper. There were people walking around with trays of them. The drinks were red or white wine or bottled beer. There was juice for the kids. No table everyone just walked around and talked. It was great because the kids were off and running with children as soon as we got there. OH!! There was a flock, maybe 50, green with red parrots, in the trees. This was exciting to us but common place to every one else.