Friends come to visit

Our good friends Lynda and Tony from Cairns popped in for a visit this week.
In the late afternoon we strolled down to Encounter Bay where we showed them the whale interpretation sign - one of 19 that Steve developed last year in conjunction with the Council and whale experts.

Here we are on the walk along our coastal path in lovely autumn sunshine.

Lynda spots some seabirds, and later on, some penguins soaking up the late-afternoon sunshine that is warming the rocks.

While chatting over champagne and nibbles in the courtyard later on, the sun set and Tony felt the need to put on a cardigan!!! Evidently for a Cairns resident, our 23 degrees was way too cool.


I am not sure that I would have woken up at 7.00 am the following day and walked up the Bluff if not for their urging. But what a delight it was, watching the sun come up. (Since retirement, a 9.00 o'clock get-out-of-bed is more my style.)

The whole shore is bathed in glorious amber light.

 The sun is fully above the horizon now with just a hint of sunlight reaching the shore. The Bluff beckons.

It was a steep climb up the Rosetta Track. (For history buffs: The Bluff was known as Kongkengguwar by the Ramindjeri, the whalers named it the Bluff, and it was officially named by the Governer of South Australia in 1839 as Rosetta Head, named for the wife of prominent businessman George Fife Angus who played a significant part in establishing the colony of South Australia. These days, it's the Bluff.)

 Tony cuts a solitary figure as Lynda and I take a break to breathe.

 But the views are lovely from the top and no matter how many times I climb here I always get a thrill looking at the coastline stretching away.

Back home I cooked up a celebratory breakfast. By now it was way past 9 o'clock and the sun was heating up.

 So time to relax before they had to head off back to Adelaide... and home to Cairns.
A happy (and active) visit.