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I cannot believe what happened while changing my daughters nappy. I went to pull her up by her arms, like I’ve done a hundred times before, and she started crying and wouldn’t lift one of her arms up. Her elbow had slipped out of place whilst pulling her up. The weirdest thing is that when we put her in her in the car seat to take her to the hospital it went back into place or so the doctor told us. 

A similar thing happened to our older daughter when she was only 17 months old and we were swinging her around like in the photo above but she pulled her shoulder out and ended up in the emergency room for hours. She had her arm put in a sling - how guilty does that make you feel! We thought it was bizarre to happen to both - one elbow and one shoulder - it makes you think how delicate children are while their bones are growing.

The moral to this story is going too wild can land a kid in hospital or even if you’re not wild. So if you have kids don’t pull on their arms at all and always lift by the chest. 

Some photos we took at nature reserve 

wallabies

Koala 

peacock 

Here is an interesting photo we came across of the ship that ran aground on Nobbys Beach in Newcastle, NSW Australia. We had the worst storm in 35 years with hurricane force 100kph winds. The ships were told by the Port Authority to go 10 kms out to sea, but this captain didn’t take notice and ended up stranded on Nobbys Beach. It quickly became a tourist attraction drawing crowds from all over Australia and probably around the world. There was a mixed reaction by local people, some thought the Pasha Bulker would stay on the beach forever and rust away just like the Sigma stayed on Stockton Beach and is still there (what’s left of it). I was 7 years old and my wife was 2 when that happened and still remember going there to have a look, that’s something you don’t see every day!

The salvage people were determined to get the ship off the beach and made several attempts to turn the ship so the bow was pointing back out to sea. They used tugboats and wire ropes to achieve this and had a few failures with wire ropes breaking etc. The whole area was off limits to sightseers for safety reasons and on the third or fourth attempt they managed to turn the ship 180 degrees and pull it off the beach and tow it into the port - 3 weeks late. I wonder if the salvaged or port authority are worried about the hydraulic oil that leaked out of the propeller and the damage it did to the poor fish and their friends.