Another fine but cool day
Walk: 10.5km
We walked down to the park to participate in the Australia Day celebrations and
availed ourselves of the free coffee and breakfast of bacon and egg rolls and a
sausage. We witnessed the Citizenship
awards and speeches. Wendy was quite
indignant as when she and her family were granted Citizenship they didn’t get a
fluffy toy – these people got a fluffy kangaroo, dolphin or koala!! The programme was marred somewhat by a bunch
of protesting indigenous folk who saw fit to throw insults at anybody and
anything, just because they could – very unpleasant.
After the official part of the celebrations were over, we took a stroll through the Botanical Gardens which are quite extensive and very well kept. It was then time to make our way back home but first we walked along the Lee Breakwater which is quite a long wall/pier/jetty.
After a lighter than usual
lunch and a snooze, it was time to attend to the domestic chores such as taking
the washing off the line, grocery shopping, and then a bit of R&R. As it was a Thursday night, we chose the
Royal Hotel for our dinner venue. All
the meals were large and good.
Thankfully we had walked there so had to walk home and that settled the
dinner very nicely. It was still light
when we got home so we had a post dinner drink and chat while Gunther fixed their
washing machine.
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