Wednesday 4 September 2013 – Hervey Bay

We both had a pretty early start to the day today, as Grant left to go fishing at 6.30 this morning, and I must have heard the car starting up, so put the light on and read for twenty minutes or so and was still up before 7.  So I had a very leisurely breakfast, shower and read until he got back at about 9 – fishless!  Not surprising really as it was very windy and there were a couple of pretty heavy showers of rain during that time.  Not that rain would be a worry to the fish I suppose because they are wet anyway!

The morning was very overcast, with more showers on and off, so we both spent the morning reading, and unidentical triplets joined my sock doll family by the end of today.

One of today’s sock dolls.

After lunch there were some periods when the clouds were less dense than earlier, so we eventually went for a walk on the beach for about an hour and twenty minutes.  The beach today was relatively empty – we only saw about half a dozen people walking during that time, so the weather was putting most people off.  Once back at camp it was back to the books (Grant and me) and the doll making (my domain), cups of tea and that was about it.  There was no sitting outside for me today, and Grant was only outside for a short while.

Just as we were about to sit down for tea, Ray rang to see if we were bored and wanted to go round to their park and play cards after tea.  So we headed there just before 7pm and have only been home about 20 minutes.  It is now 20 to midnight.  We played the card game that Marie brought over from Germany when she came to Amanda and Mark’s earlier this year – it is called something 10.  I still can’t remember the name of the game, but it was good fun.

I don’t think there has been a shower of rain since tea time, so hopefully it will be fine enough for our drive to Bundaberg tomorrow.