Up at the crack of 7.30am to go back to my little house on the prairie after a handover. Then a blitz on the house work - my vacuum cleaner can vacuum from one of the house to the other without changing plugs for the cord LOL. Was picked up by my ride at 10.30 and off we went on our Intrepid journey. First thing we saw was a blue tongue lizard, and then another one further up the road, a snake (I missed that) and another three lizards. I am told that the lizards will bite you and will run up your leg or have a go at you. Hmmmmm, will not be hoping out of the car to see how cute they are. First photo moment was when we came to a place in the road on the way to Mullawa that had water covering the road and looked as though it was moving reasonably swiftly, a trifle disconcerting as the car that did not make it yesterday was looking very sorry for itself, behind a bush with water still around it. Could we cross or not - that was the question. Fearing not (while I stayed in the car taking photos, my driver waded through the water, luckily only to midcalf so we gingerly drove through. Then the next piece of excitement was where the sign said flood plain and the water looked deeper (it was) and still moving apace. Once again the walk test took place and once again we ventured forth. When we got to the Mullawa turnoff there was a sign over the road saying road closed LOL - it was gone by the time we got back at 5.30pm. While we were waiting for my driver to pick up family, I got taken to the Rotary memorial to the HMAS Sydney that was sunk during the war with 645 lives lost. There is a circular dome with birds in flight so it looks like a paper cut out, representing all the lives lost. There is two semi circular walls a la the Vietnam wall of Rememberence in the States with all the names of the men who lost there lives. There is a replica of the very front pointy bit of a destroyer with a flag on top and all of this is on a hill overlooking Geraldton. The aussis do do a good war memorial. Have to dash and will finish this tomorrow as am off to a party.
Cheers
Lynn
fancy plans and pants to match: hanging ditch part two
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*honestly, what a great photo*
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Eeew, blue tongue lizards running up your leg...... there are times when swollen ankles, and calves of not-inconsiderable girth CAN be a distinct advantage. That'll slow the blighters down a bit, no doubt.
Seeing that the state of your ankles-in-the-heat has already been shared with your reading public in your previous journeys abroad, I'm sure the topic can be broached again, so, how are your ankles in the WA heat as compared to the heat of Greece?
The other intrepid explorers (of the Northern Hemisphere winter variety) are safely returned from Spain and so the year slowly gets as closely back to normal as the "new" normal is going to get for a while.
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