MerryMade Crafts etc ...

Morning everyone, what a beautiful start to our morning here, a little bit of rain.  I don't feel it will be here all day but it has broken our dry spell.  We have been on fire ban for the past month due the dryness. Today I have the two November swap cards I have done for Craftmad Swappers (an Australian card swap group). The last six months of this year our swaps are all Christmas cards with themes.  For November one card had to be Merry and Bright and the second card wash Merry and Bright with ornaments. Hope you wake to some lovely weather.

 Morning everyone, thanks to those who have visited.  It has been so lovely seeing familiar names and inspires me more to get back into blogging and visiting online friends around the world.  Time to share some more boating photos. The weather was awesome yesterday to take the boat out to the reef, so we headed out to Michaelmas Cay and Vlasoff Cay as did a lot of other people.  This was an hour boat ride for us on almost flat water - magic. Trinity Inlet - Cairns on the left Cairns shoreline  Michaelmas Cay is a bird sanctuary which humans can (should) only be in a certain roped off area near the sign you will see in the photo below and also only be there between 9.30am and 3pm.  We swam ashore to check out the birds and reread the sign, it's been about 5 years since we've been out here.  A lot of chicks and birds sitting on eggs on the Cay at the moment.  Snorkelling was the next on the agenda on the way back to the boat, we saw a turtle, loads ...