Wed 9 Oct 2013 - A Veg-out Day

During the early hours of the morning the wind came up and I woke at 4.30am, because it was so wild, and remembered that I laid our reef shoes out on the back bumper to dry. I knew I had to get up and fetch them inside before they blew away. I retrieved them and then found our chairs down by the next van, but more surprising still was the discovery that it had been raining - this is the first rain we have had since we left home on 3 July 2013!

Due to this nocturnal activity and the fact that the morning was dull and overcast, we didn't wake up until 8.00am and then we weren't inspired to leap out of bed and get moving, so we decided to pay for another night and have a lazy day.

Actually, once we finally got up, we did work quite hard, as we still had to remove all the dust from the inside of the van, Rodger pulled out the mats and washed them and the floor, then we decided that the rest of the van looked so good that we needed to wash the curtains too!

After all this activity, and lots of chats with the neighbours about the storm, we set off to see more of the town. We went out to the mile long jetty and walked to the end, nearly being blown out to sea. It's so long that there's a little train to take people out and back. Near the beginning of the Jetty are a Lighthouse and a Railway Museum.

Next we went to find the fishing fleet which is based here and we bought some fresh prawns down at the harbour. On the way, we saw a children's park with 2 Blue whale ribs as a gateway. 

Prawn trawler coming back to port

 

When we got back to the camping ground, we had BBQ prawns and chicken and then we Skyped my brother Simon and his family as, in France, the children don't go to school on Wed, so it's a good day to catch them.