Monday 21st August 2017
Dalwhinnie departed early this morning for
Cape Upstart, as they need to be back at Airlie by the 26th.
Conditions are still quite light, so I imagine they will motor or motor sail
all of the way. With Mark and Janet from Koonya back in Sydney, only Imagine is
left here with us, and we both intend to leave to head South early Wednesday
morning.
This morning’s plan is a walk to Alma Bay
for a swim followed by lunch at the Arcadia Hotel. It is a bit cooler today,
very pleasant for walking.
Peter is still going well with the long
walks and scrubbing up pretty well the next day without too many aches and
pains.
We set out at around 10am, and it is a
relatively easy walk along the shore of Geoffrey Bay. We diverted at the end of
the bay to walk around to the old barge landing ramp to see the rock wallabies
before moving on to Alma Bay.
Snorkelers find the unused ramp a convenient entry point to explore the nearby reef
This one had a Joey
The weekend crowds are gone, and the tide
is still quite high, so the conditions are ideal. According to the information
on the SLSC information board the water temperature is 23 C, ideal for a swim.
We all went for w a walk around the rocks and in for a refreshing swim.
Now ready for lunch we walked across to the
Arcadia Hotel, and had a pub lunch that was quite good food.
Everyone is up for walking home, so we
headed back to Nelly Bay on foot, in total we did around 9 km. Carole and
Sharon went even further, walking around to the Western Breakwall and back.
Sue and John from Imagine soon returned back
from their day in Townsville and the conversation quickly changed to dinner
arrangements. After much discussion, we decided to go to Man Friday, a Mexican
Restaurant, with basic International dishes as well. The food was very good, and the service a bit
ordinary, but the local wildlife entertainment made up for it.
Dinner at Man Friday seated in the garden with the curlews and possums visiting regularly
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