Resting in The Dunes

Wednesday 10th We have indeed had a quiet day today, a short drive to the dunes, where we took off our shoes and walked in the very fine pinky, orangey, sand, struggling up one of the dune faces (small). There were some very interesting animal tracks, one of which snaked from side to side, with little footprints either side, which I assumed were lizards, but other ones completely escaped me, one looking like a fat cycle tire tread, about 1.5 inches wide and the other like a half inch wide zipper. When talking to the ranger later he suggested the big one may well be a Stink Beetle and the small one some kind of cricket, very interesting though. As we drove back to the trailer we were surprised by a large shaggy dog lie animal crossing the road about 30 yards ahead. This was our first really good sighting of a coyote (we had seen one in the distance about a week ago), but with trees either side of the road it was gone before I could reach and get the camera, still the record is in our brain and now here on paper. The rest of the day we did indeed relax, apart from having to move site because of a mix up in their booking system. The ranger was very apologetic and suggested several alternative sites, which we sat and thought about, saying yes we would look, but they were probably too small, or too far from the toilets. Eventually he broke! And offered us the use of the one site on the camp with full hook-up, the camp host site, which was now empty for the winter and they charged double for. We reluctantly accepted this change of site and moved over. This will give the batteries a chance to charge up fully as well as being able to heat the trailer in the morning using electricity (yes the nights are getting much colder now and we have moved to the winter duvet and need to put a bit of heating on in the morning until the sun takes over. Mind you when it does it is still lovely and warm. We can also have long hot showers as we are not using our on board water supply and the waste can be got rid of straight away. Sally can use her hair dryer without using the generators, the laptop can stayed fully charged and I can have hot toast for breakfast.