THURSDAY OCTOBER 19     LAKES ENTRANCE

After a restless night, I was up at 7am. The morning was rather warm and humid and that got John up at the early hour – for him – of 9.30am.

Our Lakes Entrance site

During the night there had been one of those little incidents designed to make mobile life that bit more unpredictable. Soon as I appeared, the guy opposite came and told me he’d turned off our water tap at 6am, because the site was flooded. Seems our hose connection had burst off. I’d heard a noise at 3am, but thought it was the dog jumping out of her seat bed. The hose had been leaking when we had first set up, but John thought he’d fixed it.

With the really sandy soils here, all the water had drained away quickly.

The van opposite moved out, then the one two sites down moved onto the vacated site. I couldn’t discern any difference between the two sites to justify the rigmarole of relocating, but there must have been some reason.

John fixed the hose then played computer games. I read and did some sewing, outside.

From the late morning there was cloud build up from the west. Definitely looking stormy.

Looking ominous

John wanted bread and cheeses for tea so we went shopping for a nice crusty bread and some Turkish rolls.  Bought some brie, a cheddar, blue cheese and a jar of bread and butter cucumbers. Went to the floating fish outlet and bought a couple of kilos of flathead pieces. Back at camp, I packed meal sized lots of flathead for the freezer, keeping out enough for tomorrow night’s tea.

By lunchtime it was really humid. Mid-afternoon there was heavy rain and some wind. That passed, then there was more around tea time and later in the night.

Storm coming

The rain cooled things down considerably and made it a much more pleasant night for sleeping. I went to bed early, being tired after last night’s poor sleep.