Friday, 29 January 2016

Any Good Book Recommendations?

We start the last day of waiting around by waking up early and hearing Wind......
Oh please don't cancel the cruise because of the weather, we look out and see blue sky but the tree tops leaning at an acute angle, only thing we can do at this time in the morning is put the kettle on.  We set off just before 10am to walk around town, via the estuary footpath, so as to eventually end up in the Olde Telegraph Station for a Coffee. We cross the road, I walk in between two trees and a voice behind me says "What's that" I bet you know before I've written it, it's a juvenile brown snake........ We watch, hop skip and jump with him for 5 minutes until he gets bored and disappears into the undergrowth, obviously the sun has brought him out and as he looked recently fed we keep a look out for more whilst also looking at the water and in the trees for someone to see new birds.  All we see are some Butterflies laying eggs and Pelicans taking off and landing which is when I think they look their best...... Unless flying in formation of course.......
We have coffee, call at the ATM and lunch back at the van before we set off in search again for the Weedy or Leafy Sea Dragon, we go to where they are supposed to be and due to the wind there is no chance of snorkelling or seeing them there.  We go past the Cemetery, now Bremer Bay is not a big town with a population of 250 people but their cemetery only has 17 graves/headstones in it, so it's either a very healthy place to live or no one stays here long enough to die...... 17 people tried it and died from boredom.......
We go to a sheltered beach on the other side of the bay where the sea is calmer and still no sea dragons but I do get checked out once again by a large sting ray who allows me to chase after him with GoPro until he has cleared the sea/beach of bathers, all of whom have legged it screeching "Stingray, Stingray" sounds like a tune....... I never heard them because of having my head under water but when I get out I get asked if I saw the Ray, I say yes, I was chasing him, got him on video, holding GoPro up with smile on my face.  I think I detected the lips of the huge bearded hillbilly man say something like "Dickhead" I'm not sure who he was referring to..........
Back to camp, shower, change and out to the well publicised fish and chip dinner at the sports club.  We drive up and there must be at least 7 cars in the car park, we walk in and are the only customers........ There are 5 women in the kitchen, a mountain of fish and chips already prepared, a huge table with a help yourself salad buffet, one man behind the bar with his co worker this side of the bar, two girls and five kids who had made three different types of cake that they were selling at A$2 a slice.  We order drinks and food and get some extra special service, I think they just wanted something to do....
As we are eating a few more people arrive but it is obvious, they are going to have a surplus of food left over tonight.  Now bearing in mind this towns population, that hardly anyone is here and we have been here four days, would it surprise you to know that we knew two of the people here......... We talk to one of them who is on a table with three friends and two of the cooks and she states that the Killer Whale trip for Sunday is cancelled....... I try phoning the organiser to establish if tomorrow's is still going but no answer and then we see the news on TV, a huge cyclone is about to hit the North West, where we have been, tomorrow and the winds are going to be felt down here on Sunday, so as of this moment we are all packed with our Charity Shop coats, our sea sickness tablets, ginger snap biscuits and are just wondering what that bottle of red tastes like, as tonight it's party night for some but for me it's a no booze tonight...........
So for us it's an early night and hopefully I'll finish my book which is just getting to the exciting bit, it's where Noddy goes into the Dark Dark wood.........


    Not so easy to see first thing in the morning

    Playing Hide and Seek, with something that could make it the last game you play......

    Take off......

   See the little fish on his nose, he kept following it around......

    Next years Butterflies being born.......





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