Tuesday 27 August 2013 – Hervey Bay

It was a little cloudy when we woke this morning, but by 8am the sun was out again and it’s been another warm day. Pauline (next door neighbour) and I wandered over this morning to check out the jewellery stall set up by one of our fellow travellers.  She makes jewellery from small silver and gold-plated jump rings – a bit fiddly and not really my cup of tea, but they were well made.  She and her husband (he with the exceptionally gross toe-nails) are here for five weeks and she sets up a stall at the various markets that are on around this district at least twice a week.

After a mid morning cuppa we headed off up to Pialba where there is a big shopping centre, but had no luck in what we were looking for.  But we did go to an art and craft superstore, and what an amazing range of stuff it had!  I only bought a couple of small packs of trims for my sock dolls, but I could have spent the whole day there quite happily.  Obviously I didn’t – I think Grant might have been getting a bit testy if I spent too long there, though today while he waited he was occupied reading yesterdays copy of the Herald-Sun.  He actually found a newsagency that had them!

After lunch we went for a walk along the beach for about an hour and a half.  The tide was in and there were several men fishing off the beach, and a couple of them catching the odd whiting.  There were even a few people in swimming today.

Once back from our walk it was cuppa time, I did a bit of hand washing, then caught up on last nights episode of Masterchef.  I know ….. but it’s getting down to the pointy end!

Grant cooks our meat most nights at the camp kitchen on the barbecue plate there, and tonight I wanted a fried egg with my meat.  He just came back to the van to get another egg and another pair of hands.  He cracked the egg onto the bbq plate, which incidentally has a drainage hole in its centre which the plate surface slopes towards, and the egg slid straight down the hole onto the floor.  So he needed an extra hand to hold the spatula/lifter in an appropriate place while the second egg was put onto the plate, to prevent it also sliding to the same fate.  Job done.  And tea has now been eaten and was very nice.

So that’s today done.  I had a text from Linda today to say that she and Adrian have extended another week – they are now leaving next Tuesday.  It seems they can’t drag themselves away from the place.