TUESDAY 31 MARCH     SOUTH WEST ROCKS

Another humid day.

After breakfast, we drove around the township, getting an idea of its layout. John, of course, checked out the bowls club, and found there was a game this afternoon. So we bought rolls and headed back to the van for an early lunch, after which he went off to bowl.

I walked around part of the town. Went to the Information Centre and collected some material. Bought some post cards.

I went for a walk along the beach. There were lots of bluey coloured jelly like critters washed up on the sand, which put me off paddling in the shallows. But it is lovely to have a convenient beach on which to walk – the first such for the trip. Lots of beach walking definitely figured prominently in my retirement dreams.

John enjoyed bowls and won the raffle – a meat tray consisting of a big piece of roasting beef and a T bone steak – just one!

Tea was salads.

People a couple of vans up from us had clothing that was hung outside, and food stored in an outside fridge, stolen during last night. They told me that the housing area adjacent to the park was mostly inhabited by aboriginal people and that the local word was that some of these were responsible for thefts from the park. We had already made sure that the bikes were chained to the A Frame of the van, but John got out an extra bit of chain and a padlock and chained up the bike carrying rack too. We decided that our outdoor table and chairs were probably safe enough – whilst they suit our needs, they are not particularly flash, or new.