Nov 25th- Dec 4th It was the mangoes :(

So it wasn’t ring worms but an allergy to mangoes! It is terribly sad because I had great plans to make mango desserts and delicious things and now I cannot touch the poisonous things! The disease kept spreading and I ended up on antihistamines, oral steroids, oral antifungal, steroid cream, anti fungal cream and I think that’s it… It has subsided a bit finally but is still there… So last week was spent itching and in ED and at the pharmacy and by the weekend I was over it! On Friday night was the White Ribbon Day Football match between Derby and the next small community. White Ribbon Day was in commemoration of violence against women. We sat out and watched the boys play- some in bare feet, some wearing just one football boot (on their kicking foot). We had picnics and a free BBQ and it was cute. Saturday night was Thanksgiving dinner. My oh my there was a lot of jolly delicious food again- including 2 huge turkeys. We were all assigned a dish to make and given the recipe to follow by our Australian-American speech pathologist. The dinner was set up in a courtyard between 2 houses with gorgeous tables set up, fairy lights and music. It was very pleasant and we have been eating leftovers all week. On Monday I managed to jump aboard an RFDS flight up the cape to One Arm Point. The view on the flight was breathtaking. Departing the mud flats of Derby surrounding the jetty and moving on to fly over blue water. After the blue come beautiful islands with surrounding turquoise waters. The landing strip looks to be about a meter from the ocean on all sides but we land safely in our mini plane. Apparently sometimes you can even see turtles swimming as you land and take off. Whilst the RFDS doctors saw patients at the clinic I wondered down to Lombadina’s beach. It was a hot hot long sandy walk and it felt like the water kept getting further and further from me but eventually I reached it and it was glorious. The perfect colour, the perfect temperature. There was not a person or another live thing in site! So I swam and read a book and found some shade and after an hour or so headed back to the clinic. On the way back home I was told that there was a resident croc sighted residing at the beach at the moment…. Thanks for not telling me earlier!!