Our neighbours to the left have been coming here for eight years and they have never had weather this ‘bad’ before. I think Merimbula has breathed a collective sigh of relief as late this afternoon the sun finally showed its face. The blue skies and pleasant mid twenties for which Merimbula is well known are making a brief appearance. We are just thankful it has not been raining.
The days of late have all seemed to blur, kind of like Ground Hog Day, a repeat of the same pattern. They all involve packing up,(no mean feat with five surfboards, boogie boards, five wetsuits, food, drink, towels, sunscreen etc….) arriving at the designated beach, unpacking, carting all our stuff to the beach, surfing, swimming, boogie boarding, eating, resting, packing up, carting all that stuff back to the car, loading up, driving back to the caravan park, unpacking all that stuff, emptying bags, rinsing out wetsuits, hanging up towels and finally heading to the showers to wash away all the salt, sand and sunscreen. No wonder Colin and I are exhausted at the end of each day. We can hardly keep our eyes open for the evening game of five hundred. I purposefully don’t have Colin as a partner in five hundred because he is so tired he keeps making basic mistakes! Just to show how wearying all this packing and unpacking is, Colin has taken to leaving the surfboards on the roof-racks of an evening (we had to buy roof racks for Pat to cart all the surfboards), and he even left them on Pat’s roof when we did the grocery shopping this morning. (this is unusual as the precious cargo is not often left unattended)
Late afternoon sees us girls showered, enjoying mocktails, reading and relaxing. The boys headed out again after bringing us all home from the beach, the unsatisfactory surfing session today means they can’t rest until they have tried another beach and with it the possibility of that illusive one last ‘good’ ride. I’m thinking dinner will be late tonight.
Colin decided that it was about time some photos of me trying to surf were taken. Fair enough I guess seeming as I put them up of everyone else.
Stand up, fall down is about where I'm at!
