SATURDAY 25 JULY     WEIPA

After breakfast, John was trying to make a new box to pack the camping stove in, dropped the stove, so breaking some of the plastic casing round its base. It still works, though.

I bought groceries. John revisited the hardware store for glue and screws for the box. We replenished the wine supply. Bought bread rolls for lunch, and for hamburger tea.

After lunch, John went to bowls.

I went for a walk along a nearby bike path. It was too hot to walk for long – I only managed 35 minutes. Went to the newsagent and bought the Weekend Australian, which came in on the 3pm plane. Also bought three cheap novels. Put in another roll of film for processing.

John enjoyed his bowls. He played with a local builder called Rob-and-his-dog.

When I was making the hamburgers for dinner, one fell on the dusty ground and was irretrievable, so I had a meatless hamburger!

There was another beautiful dusk and sunset.

Weipa town is built on a promontory, that is between the mouths of the Embley and Mission Rivers. It was the Mission River that we crossed on the long bridge to go to the bauxite mining area, the other day. The port facilities and barge landing are in the Embley River, not out in the open Gulf.