Day 69 Sunday 16/7/2023 Mulambin, light rain cool 21

We spend the morning indoors and complain about the weather, but it is a chance to catch up on some blogging. Feeling wintry and with a couple of bananas in the fruit bowl that are almost overripe, I decide to make banana muffins in the pie maker.

I should have heated the pie maker first.

I should have measured the ingredients with more precision, especially the baking powder.

They tasted good but looked like circular banana bread. Bananas frisbees anyone?

The afternoon clears enough for us to go walking and I hit one of my favourites, Lammermoor Beach. On my return, I pick up a tired Woody from a bus stop.

Happy Hour is at Double or Nuthin’ and Shirley Temple’s as she has a sore foot. Elle’s friends are heading north to Townsville and we noisily offer suggestions as to where they should stop on the way…”Have you been to? Oh, you must see!” Poor things are bombarded.

Dinner is leftovers.

Accom: $49.52

Day 70 Monday 17/7/2023 Monday Mulambin, windy 16 – 23

There’s excitement this morning as K & B arrive with their friends W & A. They’re camped behind us.

On my walk along Mulambin Beach I’m fascinated by what I presume are jellyfish. Half globe shaped they range in size from an almost invisible water droplet to that of a half tennis ball. The smaller ones are clear and the larger seem to have a milky ‘skin’. Adding to the confusion I pick up what must be a seed, smooth, striped, oddly shaped, and it rattles. I’ll have to walk faster and stop searching for these oddities deposited by Neptune, they’ll call me eccentric.

Woody and Double or Nuthin’ walk to Causeway Lake, I didn’t notice them coming back with any weird things.

Happy Hour is at ‘ours’ while a pork roast cooks in the air fryer, wafting wondrous aromas.

Accom: $49.52