We've been invaded!

Population: 26

We’ve been invaded!!!  All of a sudden the guests started arriving.  The population of the island more than doubled overnight.

A family group of Italian fisherman are amongst the guest that arrived this week-end.  They are rugged, outdoors types with deep tans and a love of coffee and food.  The father is from “the old country” but the middle aged sons are Aussie to the core.  They brought their own espresso machine just in case they couldn’t get proper coffee on the island.  The brothers made dinner last night by barbecuing the fish they caught and made pasta with a ragu made out of emu meat.  Bush tucker at it's finest!  We all sat on the front veranda overlooking the bay and swapped island stories of sharks and emergency rescues and improvised medical procedures. 

There are wild muscles on the beach and the Italian brothers are going to attempt to de-sand them sufficiently to eat.

There was another snake sighting in the children’s playroom last week, except this time the mother had to rush to the schoolroom to hand me the one year old daughter before she could grab the shovel and behead it.  In the meantime, the snake disappeared.  It’s likely hiding somewhere in the homestead.  BUT the good thing is that the mother then went on a mission to rid the playroom of anything that snakes could hide behind and I scored the bookshelf for my bedroom!!!  Woooo hoooo!!  I guess now the snake can hide behind it at the foot of my bed.