Friday, 27th August 2010 (Helens Birthday, Skipper's sister)
07.00hrs Another beautiful day in Australia. Neil T. went off on a tour to Litchfield National Park with the WARC crowd, Here he met many of the people that were at the dinner last night and hit it off with Oisin from Donigal.
Aileen traveled to town and did her own tour of the botanical gardens and visited some historical buildings. Later skipper met her in town and we toddled off to the Government house, which is only open a couple of days in the year. This was a beautifully designed building, crisp white tall single storey building, almost gothic in style, and had really very simple proportions and then surrounded with a verandah which was enclosed with white crisp louvres, a little architectural gem.
Before all this, skipper watched the mechanic finish off his work on servicing the engines, and then tested both to make sure every thing was running as they should.. ....... and happy with this, set about rearranging all the books and saloon presses.
Stephen and Aileen went to Cullen's Bay for dinner in an Italian restaurant, and then returned to A Lady. We met some of the other crews on the way and had to stop and chat for a while. Then tried and failed miserably to get the laptop to work and skype Leah, Michelle, and Stefan. Crips, skip just cannot get the hang of this yoke at all............
We had an early night as we are going to the Kakadu National Park tomorrow for 3 days, up at 05.30.. ohhhhh no, not again...
That's it for a short day.
Signed :- Stephen Hyde (Skipper)