30th August – Sunday
The time has come, as the Walrus said – time to pack the outside tables back into their bags, roll up the ground cover, restore order to the storage area under the bed, buy the last minute groceries and fresh food, fill the Pajero with diesel and adjust the tyre pressure. Tomorrow we hitch up and head for Townsville.
Another very hot day, with the temperature on 33 degrees at 2.00 pm. It is no longer pleasant to sit outside in the “fresh” and humid air, inside is much more comfortable. We should have hot weather until well south in New South Wales, hopefully it will stay warm until Melbourne.
Last night the call was made to TT Line to make a reservations, preferably on Sunday, 4th October. They can’t take pensioners that night or the previous night, unless we were TPI, but we could sail on Monday, 5th October. One must ask the question, do they refuse to carry children (who don’t pay the full fare, either) on certain sailings??? To add insult to injury, after paying their exorbitant fare of $811, I discovered this morning that there has been a fare restructure and the shoulder season fare has been abolished from today and there are now only two fare structures – off peak and high season. So, back on the phone to TT Line this morning to have a grizzle and told that if I had booked today, it would have actually cost more – the passenger fares are cheaper but the vehicle costs have increased (quite substantially!). Can’t win.
Last night I managed to get a couple of photos of the bush thick knees (or stone curlews) that live in the caravan park and party all night. It is hard to believe that such a vague looking bird (about 40-50 cms high) can make so much noise!
The sunrise this morning on the mountains to the west of the caravan park was rather nice to look at. The western side of the park has similar mountains, and the bird life here is quite spectacular. Not only do we have the resident curlews, but there are plenty of yellow oriales, lorikeets, cockatoos, sunbirds, a tiny little bird that wont stay still long enough to identify, small doves and a large flock of metallic starlings. These fly in flocks are zoom around like fighter jets – low, around, through and FAST!
Cat has decided to now support St Kilda on their way to the Grand Final – his colours do match, of course!
The time has come, as the Walrus said – time to pack the outside tables back into their bags, roll up the ground cover, restore order to the storage area under the bed, buy the last minute groceries and fresh food, fill the Pajero with diesel and adjust the tyre pressure. Tomorrow we hitch up and head for Townsville.
Another very hot day, with the temperature on 33 degrees at 2.00 pm. It is no longer pleasant to sit outside in the “fresh” and humid air, inside is much more comfortable. We should have hot weather until well south in New South Wales, hopefully it will stay warm until Melbourne.
Last night the call was made to TT Line to make a reservations, preferably on Sunday, 4th October. They can’t take pensioners that night or the previous night, unless we were TPI, but we could sail on Monday, 5th October. One must ask the question, do they refuse to carry children (who don’t pay the full fare, either) on certain sailings??? To add insult to injury, after paying their exorbitant fare of $811, I discovered this morning that there has been a fare restructure and the shoulder season fare has been abolished from today and there are now only two fare structures – off peak and high season. So, back on the phone to TT Line this morning to have a grizzle and told that if I had booked today, it would have actually cost more – the passenger fares are cheaper but the vehicle costs have increased (quite substantially!). Can’t win.
Last night I managed to get a couple of photos of the bush thick knees (or stone curlews) that live in the caravan park and party all night. It is hard to believe that such a vague looking bird (about 40-50 cms high) can make so much noise!
The sunrise this morning on the mountains to the west of the caravan park was rather nice to look at. The western side of the park has similar mountains, and the bird life here is quite spectacular. Not only do we have the resident curlews, but there are plenty of yellow oriales, lorikeets, cockatoos, sunbirds, a tiny little bird that wont stay still long enough to identify, small doves and a large flock of metallic starlings. These fly in flocks are zoom around like fighter jets – low, around, through and FAST!
Cat has decided to now support St Kilda on their way to the Grand Final – his colours do match, of course!
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