19 July – Saturday
We have discovered it takes a long time to do nothing. Started out with a leisurely breakfast and a quiet read in the sun before deciding to head off and look at some other caravan parks, as we have to move next Friday. Before we could get out of our chairs, the next door neighbour decided to have a chat while he worked out how to turn his gas hot water on (his wife wanted to do the washing and obviously had a small washing machine in their caravan). After attempting to solve the problems of the world, he still had managed to get his hot water going and Les enquired gently as to why he wasn’t using electricity and saving his gas? Didn’t know how!
We eventually set off for the first caravan park on the list and had only gone a couple of kilometres when Jenny and Brian rang to say they were in our car park and were we at home. Turned around, headed back and spent the rest of the morning talking to them. Then, of course, it was lunchtime.
Second attempt was actually successful and the first park we looked at had plenty of vacancies, very lush and tropical sites, quite expensive but definitely not in a good area. Next park was a bit cheaper and we were offered a site on the grass outside the amenities or next to the dump point – definitely not! Third park was a bit out of Cairns, fairly new and not over large. Very friendly and helpful staff, good sites and the amenities blocks even had large vases of fresh flowers. Decided immediately to book in here.
We spent the evening with Jenny and Brian, who depart tomorrow for Cape York, and took a picnic to Palm Cove. It was a beautiful, balmy evening, we sat under some palm trees, watched the full moon rise over the Coral Sea, enjoyed a nice glass of red – and Brian kept a wary eye out for crocodiles!
We have discovered it takes a long time to do nothing. Started out with a leisurely breakfast and a quiet read in the sun before deciding to head off and look at some other caravan parks, as we have to move next Friday. Before we could get out of our chairs, the next door neighbour decided to have a chat while he worked out how to turn his gas hot water on (his wife wanted to do the washing and obviously had a small washing machine in their caravan). After attempting to solve the problems of the world, he still had managed to get his hot water going and Les enquired gently as to why he wasn’t using electricity and saving his gas? Didn’t know how!
We eventually set off for the first caravan park on the list and had only gone a couple of kilometres when Jenny and Brian rang to say they were in our car park and were we at home. Turned around, headed back and spent the rest of the morning talking to them. Then, of course, it was lunchtime.
Second attempt was actually successful and the first park we looked at had plenty of vacancies, very lush and tropical sites, quite expensive but definitely not in a good area. Next park was a bit cheaper and we were offered a site on the grass outside the amenities or next to the dump point – definitely not! Third park was a bit out of Cairns, fairly new and not over large. Very friendly and helpful staff, good sites and the amenities blocks even had large vases of fresh flowers. Decided immediately to book in here.
We spent the evening with Jenny and Brian, who depart tomorrow for Cape York, and took a picnic to Palm Cove. It was a beautiful, balmy evening, we sat under some palm trees, watched the full moon rise over the Coral Sea, enjoyed a nice glass of red – and Brian kept a wary eye out for crocodiles!
2 comments:
Lovely weather here - a record of 7 degrees!!! No I haven't missed any numerals in front of the 7.
I also had a lovely tea - beautiful chicken (with green bits!!!), baked potatoes, baked pumpkin, parsnip, carrots etc and a lovely raspberry meringue with chocolate all over it. We thought of you!
Freezing today too. Dinner was delicious last night at Di and Cam's. Jack had dinner by himself first at about 5:30, Indian curry, lots of lamb and rice. Then when everyone was having dinner at 7, he had another huge serving of Cam's chicken with coriander. He was eating it so fast before I had a bite of my chicken, he's already finished my whole piece. Shan
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