TUESDAY OCTOBER 17     LAKES ENTRANCE

We both had a sleep in until 9.30 and I woke to a lovely day – blue sky and sunshine. It felt warm, though there was a slight cool breeze. No sea mist this morning

I walked Couey and then had my breakfast outside, whilst John slept until later. I sewed for a while. John did some bowls club work on his laptop.

I was a bit startled by the sudden appearance of a man from the other side of Bus. He was a worker on a scallop boat and was doing the rounds, selling them – freshly caught, cleaned and $30 a kilo. Too tempting to pass up – I bought a kilo, hoping he was legit and that we didn’t wind up with food poisoning. Sometimes one trusts…

The dog was walked a couple  more times, including across the bridge and down to the little park. It was really a lovely day to be doing not much.

Cunninghame Arm – looking east from the bridge

Mid afternoon, drove to the shopping centre to pick up a few groceries and some wine.

Some of the Lakes Entrance fishing fleet

When we got back, there was a guy setting up a camper trailer on the next site. He’d parked almost a metre into our site. Had we not come back I am sure he’d have put his guy ropes across our car parking space. I saw him holding a guy rope and surveying the car after we’d returned. In the end, he left both ropes dangling. He made some comment to John about always liking to set up right in the corner of his site because his trailer was so big. And it was! He had a young girl with him and said his wife had gone shopping. She stayed away for a good couple of hours more – reckon she was avoiding the set-up work, and I could see why!       

Note the pink painted lines that denote the site boundary!

I couldn’t believe the outfit this man had. Apart from the large camper trailer, he put tarps over most of the site, then draped a lot of shadecloth around. He set up a fair sized gazebo. There was a portable BBQ with its own large gas bottle. Given that he’d started before we came back from the shops, his setting up took another three hours! The rig was ridiculous. He did say they’d had trouble fitting in on some caravan park sites. I’m sure of it.

Our intrusive neighbours

We had to move where we’d been tethering Couey because of his intrusion into our site – it was the area with the afternoon shade.

Unfortunately, they were here for four nights, before heading further west. Not great neighbours. Only three of them but they were quite noisy.

I cooked some of the scallops for tea, in garlic and butter. Served with a fancy Caesar type salad. Delicious. Froze the remaining flathead strips and scallops.