Sea Eagle - male i think.
Hi Folks,
Some varied tasks today ranging from BBQ cleaning, fire lighting, digging planter holes, washing windows, polishing silver, washing bowls and glasses, stuffing pillows and decobwebbing to name most of them. The big job of the day was taking the rubbish to the dump at Margate. Susan loaded it in the trailer and I drove. There is no rubbish collection here so you have to collect and take all your own rubbish and recyclables to the dump. The recyclables are free and the rubbish is $20 a tonne with a minimum fee of $7.
The male sea eagle was in the tree today. I managed to get closer than last time to take a picture by using the car. However the rumble of the diesel scared him off when i accelerated out onto the main road to take a close up.
That's about all the news that is news. The internet was running like a dog most of the day until about 10pm. I put this down to all the tourists over here using wireless broadband. Bloody tourists! I made a small modification to our configuration so that the network aerial can now be mounted outside on the roof rack and swiveled to improve our wireless capability. It has done that but because the broadband network was running so erratically it masked the improvement and made me grumpy.
I see on the late news the Sydney Hobart fleet is facing light winds as they enter Bass Strait.I think we will be able to see the boats as they sail up the Derwent. Mind you they will be in the far distance.
We were having some discussion about curtailing the detail in the blog while we are "working" since it is getting quite boring. Although i have a feeling that once I start missing days this will grow into weeks. Something for further thought.
I have also been having some thoughts about how we can travel far lighter and more efficiently. We have too much redundancy, too many options. I.e. a swag and the camper trailer allthe way down to 5 bottles of sunblock. We need to be far more ruthless in our packing not that we can do much about it until we return to the main land.
Susan has been suffering a fair bit with her arthritis so i have persuaded her to go back onto her fish oil and glucosamine tablets. Hopefully this will help a bit else we will have to return to the tropics as it was markedly better in the warmer climes.
Anyway that's the news for now.
Night folks
Cheers Simon
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