Early this morning we moored in the Whitsunday Islands way out at sea, 30 minutes in a tender to Airlie Beach. The day was grey and gloomy and threatening rain though warm so we decided not to go ashore but to stay on board and do something different
from bouncing like a cork in a tiny boat.
Which was have iced coffee at Sir Samuel's coffee shop and go in the quiz at the Golden Lion pub. This was abstruse film questions and we came third with 15/20 e.g. the last words in Gone With the Wind.
After lunch in the Britannia we spent the afternoon out of the rain in our favourite Library chairs - such a hard life.
Then in search of a cup of tea we encountered our Italians Ferdie and Maria green about the gills, spitting mad (Maria) and trying to recover from their excursion to the Great Barrier Reef over rough seas. 39 out of 40 on their catamaran were sick so that was a good one to miss.
Needless to say they are not dining tonight.
We managed to get the early dinner in company with an interesting American couple: Denny is a lecturer in Oceanography whom David will hear tomorrow. He confirmed the lack of internet since Brisbane, frustrating for him as he has university students to keep in touch with. Maybe his is the perfect job?
The entertainment was The Leading Men, four stars of Australian musical theatre, singing their songs to a packed audience. Very loudly.
No comments:
Post a Comment