Another lovely day here in Paradise: we are soooooo lucky! We had a relaxing morning enjoying the sunshine on the beautiful white sandy beach at South Cape Beach, a State Park. We're not sure if there was no Ranger there because of the USA Government budget problems or whether now that we are in October and therefore out-of-season the State Park is not manned. We had heard that State Park Offices would be closed because of the Government's inability to agree a bu...

Sunday was another fine day but as a travel day we had little chance to appreciate the continuing good weather. Packing was a quick job as we'd lived out of our bags and cases in the main here. We gave the cabin a clean, Dave made sure the wood supply was topped up for whoever came next and Jill made sandwiches for en route, then we were off. The roads south got increasingly busy and we needed to stop for fuel. We pulled off at Concord where bizarrely the two pe...