It's Raining

Cheer, cheer, the red and the white ...

Monday, 9 July 2012

Cat wore his red and white scarf for most of yesterday morning, still on a high after Sydney’s win the previous evening.

Sunday was a fairly quiet day, with a visit to a local shopping centre for supplies being the highlight of the morning. The afternoon just seemed to disappear, as did the surrounding hills when the rain arrived. We watched the video of “Red Dog” last night – it was lovely to learn the story behind the statue we saw at Dampier a couple of years ago.

We have made the decision to fly to Cape York on a day trip and this morning we needed to visit the office of Daintree Air to pay our deposit and weigh in. We spent over half an hour doing an in-depth study of Cairns Airport’s roadway system, before learning that Daintree Air are on the opposite side of the runway! We plan to fly on the 25th July, weather permitting.

Unfortunately, weather wasn’t really permitting anything today – raining heavily by this time – so, when the rains come all good tourists go shopping. We decided to check out the local DFO and the fist store we saw just happened to be Ralph Lauren – Les’ favourite outfitter – and they had 70% reductions on all their stock. We saved a LOT of money!!!

Although very wet, it is still a rather pleasant 25 degrees.