Wet Season

Wednesday, 11 July 2012

In the last two days, Cairns has broken its all time record for the amount of rain to fall in July – and it all fell in one day! It most definitely rained, and, of course, the humidity sat at about 90% even when it wasn’t raining.

Yesterday was a fairly quiet day, apart from arranging a quote for AAMI to have our awning replaced. (We did discover during the downpour that the new “skylights” in the awning did allow the rain to fall straight through.) We visited the recommended repairer and then had to wait for someone to come to the caravan park and measure the awning during the afternoon.

Today, AAMI rang to say they had received the quote and contacted the repairer – we now have to wait for the new awning to arrive in Cairns and then arrange for it to be installed. This will mean taking the caravan off-site for a few hours, which shouldn’t be too much of a drama.

This morning we headed into Cairns Central so that Les could visit the Telstra shop and change his mobile plan. While we were in the shopping centre, I found a doona cover for the caravan – it is now all nicely ironed and on the bed. Cat thought it showed his eyes to advantage and has taken to sitting on the bed.

It is very, very hot this afternoon and very, very humid – the air conditioner has actually been switched on!