So, hey, do you think the kid with the too-big Bondi Beach sweatshirt and the boomerang might be a tourist? :)
Mike got the boys boomerangs in Cairns, and Matthew had been eager to try his out. We thought the lawns in front of the botanical gardens might be a good place. It went pretty well at first.
But then, Mike was throwing James's boomerang, and the wind caught it and wedged it up in the tree. A little girl who had been watching came running up with a stick, and said, "Here! Use this!"
A few minutes later I came back and said to Mike, "Where's the stick?" He said, "Up in the tree. Along with another stick." So then he got a rock...which got stuck in the tree. It was kind of hilarious. (To me. Not to Mike.)
We were about to give up, but James found a smaller rock up in the fig tree, and he wanted to give it a try. And lo and behold, after three or four throws, Mike actually got the boomerang down! Yippee -- the day was saved!
(Unfortunately the larger rock was still wedged up there, right in a little V-shaped cradle of branches. We just hoped that it was solidly stuck enough not to fall down on anyone! It certainly wasn't moving even with the breezes coming through.)
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