Thursday 15th
December 2016
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| Before he left Pete carefully dried out all of the cards I had collected over the years and which were happy swimming around in what I thought was a safe resting place under the starboard aft bunk... |
Pete is back – he is sitting at his computer cursing faintly
as he struggles with his paperwork. Just
a change from struggling with boat work!
Michael is also off the boat. He is driving from Townsville to Melbourne, a
long long way. Friday he and his ute
will be on the ferry; Saturday he will be here in Hobart.
There is still a lot of boatwork to do, so Pete will
have to go back to Queensland in January.
In the meantime…it is all GO in Hobart. The fourth biggest cruise liner in the world has
been and gone. Ovation of the Sea – I do
think this is a funny name…
It was very hot (32) on Tuesday, chilly and windy on
Wednesday. I walked into town and on to
Battery Point and was startled several times by violent and unexpected gusts of
wind. One of the gusts blew my
sunglasses right off my face. The lenses
flew in one direction, the frame in another…
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| Beautiful Battery Point |
Echidnas abound, right in the city. My niece Isabelle found one gamely crossing Macquarie
Street the other day. She and her friends
rescued it and sent it on its way towards the Rivulet, where it will stay, one
hopes. And yesterday I found one on the footpath
outside Pete’s house. I discouraged it
from crossing the road and I hope it has gone back down into the valley where
it should be safe from squashing.
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