river aquarium and dinghies! - day 5/6

We moved on the following day. Hubby chose this place because someone said that they had caught a big fish here :) It ended up being perfect because the trees that surrounded us on all sides created a wonderful wind breaker.
The sun came out and it was a glorious day. Also, because of the jetty, they kids could run around.
The water was teeming with tiny fish. The kids even managed to catch some and make their own little aquarium :)
The first little fish
using their nets to catch more

Gran and Grandad joined us just before lunch.
And we got out the dinghies!!!
They were naturals!


Everyone took turns

Gran couldn't resist for long :)
Time with Grandad
chatting
We happened to moor next to a professional fisherman. Here he was teaching the children to mix their own ground bait.


More fish

Once the children were confident on the dinghies we allowed them to go out a little further.

And we blew up the 2nd dinghy
Fishing took up most of the day. In fact that is what we did for most of the holiday; fish, eat, and read.
Kiki tried and tried to catch a fish with her net, unfortunately, she doesn't quite have the patience and got very frustrated. I was impressed at how long she stuck at it and eventually she managed to catch one. It was dead so slightly easier to catch but she loved it no less. She named it Lily and carried it around for most of the day waiting for it to come alive again :)
Later in the day she was given a little pot of maggots to look after. She named them all and showed them to the fishermen. She looked after them well until a gust of wind blew them into the water :(

windy day adventures - day 4

It was VERY windy today so we stayed inside and read.

nipping out of the boat to hunt for conkers.


Then to play games
This was the evil mud fairies home that needed to be attacked.

eels! - day 3

Breakfast!

My little monkey
We went off by ourselves for a couple of days.

Ruined abbey of the Order of Saint Benedict.
Dancing on the boat.
hee hee
We had some leftover ham that the guys used as bait. Very soon they caught...eels!!!



Brandon had to handle with newspaper because of all the slime.


Kristin caught an eel too :)
Here Hubby was comforting Brandon who had managed to catch a boat which took his entire line and left the reel smoking. Brandon managed to hold on to the rod but he got a big fright.

Norfolk Broads - day 2

We were up early and got busy mopping down the boat.
Breakfast eaten and boat cleaned, we were then ready to set off for another location.
The kids had a turn at driving the boat.

we reached one of the broads.





I got to drive too but left the reversing to hubby.

We moored up and took a walk. This is toad hole cottage.
Done up as it would have looked all those years ago.


This is the larder.
The fishing tools.
After the cottage we went to look at the windmills.
The back again for more fishing.

While the guys fished, we walked into town. The locals said that it was only a mile away but it turned out to be more like 3 :) At least it tired out a very energetic boy.