I had set my alarm for 3.30 pm so I could wake to watch the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. Stayed awake until Australia entered the arena and then woke to watch after UK had entered. Inala phoned around 8 am to let me know that Tom and Gill were engaged so got up and prepared to go around the peninsular for the day. We headed north and stopped at the wreck of the SS Mildura - a cattle ship that was wrecked over 100 years ago and it is still visible on roc...

Gerry gave me a cooked breakfast in bed. It was very windy this morning you could hear it early hours. Gerry had to take the patrol to have a service so seeing we didn't have a vehicle we took neighbours Rod's advice and walked to the Novotel and had a coffee in their beautiful restaurant overlooking the sea. Had a look at the marina and walked back - in total about 5.6 klms The patrol was ready then so we drove up to the shops and had some lunch and ordered the ...