Well, another exciting week on the houseboat and another week gone by without us getting the caravan back. We have spoken to both the insurance company and the people who are fixing it and it looks like it will be another week before we get it back so mum and dad will have to put up with us for another week!
It has been an interesting week with lots of swimming, fishing, cycling, exploring in the tinny, happy hours and taking in gorgous sunsets.
The weather has been extremely variable. It has mostly been hot and sunny and beautiful weather for swimming, but we have had days where it is really windy all day, only for it to calm down to a beautiful, calm night where we go up on the top deck to play cards and watch the sun go down and for it to be hot enough that you can hardly get to sleep at night, only for it to come up with a huge wind storm in the middle of the night and turn cold enough for you to want to snuggle under all the blankets you can find. The good thing about that particular spot though (Booky Creek) was that it was the best fishing we have had the whole time we have been on board. It seems unbeliveable but we have hardly caught a fish the entire time we have been on board (can't even lose a bait). We caught a great big yellowbelly as well as some huge carp. We cut the carp up and leave it on the bank for the kites to eat.
This morning I had a bit of a nasty surprise when I got up early to do my usual work only to find out that the internet woudn't work. After playing around with it a bit for awhile I decided to get Ross out of bed who had hardly slept a wink because of the storm and he played around with it for awhile and couldn't get it going either. We had just moved to a new spot from the night before so we hopped on our bikes and went back to the spot we had been the night before where the internet had been working fine to see if it was the phone or the Telstra that was playing up and it turned out it was the phone - bumma! We were out in the middle of nowhere so there wasn't much we could do about it at that stage so we just got underway when we could and decided to head into Berri. Ross and I took off in the tinny and went into town but being a small country town and it being a Sunday, there wasn't much we could do about the phone so we decided to go to the pub where we were going to moor outside of and see if we could organise some wireless internet. As we were heading to the pub we noticed mum and dad coming in so Ross ran down to help tie it up while I went to the pub to find out about the internet. Ross got to the boat and mum and dad threw him the rope and as he was tying it up his foot slipped and he went over the pier and straight into the water - phone, wallet, GPS and all! If the phone wasn't broken before I reckon it will be now! Luckily the GPS was waterproof and the wallet - well it will dry out!
It has been an interesting week with lots of swimming, fishing, cycling, exploring in the tinny, happy hours and taking in gorgous sunsets.
The weather has been extremely variable. It has mostly been hot and sunny and beautiful weather for swimming, but we have had days where it is really windy all day, only for it to calm down to a beautiful, calm night where we go up on the top deck to play cards and watch the sun go down and for it to be hot enough that you can hardly get to sleep at night, only for it to come up with a huge wind storm in the middle of the night and turn cold enough for you to want to snuggle under all the blankets you can find. The good thing about that particular spot though (Booky Creek) was that it was the best fishing we have had the whole time we have been on board. It seems unbeliveable but we have hardly caught a fish the entire time we have been on board (can't even lose a bait). We caught a great big yellowbelly as well as some huge carp. We cut the carp up and leave it on the bank for the kites to eat.
This morning I had a bit of a nasty surprise when I got up early to do my usual work only to find out that the internet woudn't work. After playing around with it a bit for awhile I decided to get Ross out of bed who had hardly slept a wink because of the storm and he played around with it for awhile and couldn't get it going either. We had just moved to a new spot from the night before so we hopped on our bikes and went back to the spot we had been the night before where the internet had been working fine to see if it was the phone or the Telstra that was playing up and it turned out it was the phone - bumma! We were out in the middle of nowhere so there wasn't much we could do about it at that stage so we just got underway when we could and decided to head into Berri. Ross and I took off in the tinny and went into town but being a small country town and it being a Sunday, there wasn't much we could do about the phone so we decided to go to the pub where we were going to moor outside of and see if we could organise some wireless internet. As we were heading to the pub we noticed mum and dad coming in so Ross ran down to help tie it up while I went to the pub to find out about the internet. Ross got to the boat and mum and dad threw him the rope and as he was tying it up his foot slipped and he went over the pier and straight into the water - phone, wallet, GPS and all! If the phone wasn't broken before I reckon it will be now! Luckily the GPS was waterproof and the wallet - well it will dry out!
2 comments:
bwahaha poor wossi ... what sorta bloggers are you though? Where are the photos of him before you pulled him out? Or at least dripping and forlorn on the dock? Haven't I taught you guys nuffink?
We missed the whole lot! We were too busy trying to get all phone, etc out of his pocket and tying up the houseboat before it ran away on us to get a photo! Didn't even think of a photo at the time!!
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