Smalley's Beach
We spent a relaxing morning at Smiley’s Beach, walking along the ocean with the tide in. It was hazy overhead, and very warm. All along the beach were holes about 5 cm in diameter, and lots of small tracks beside them. We assumed they must be turtle nests, but we saw no turtles. When we got back to our campsite we sat under the shade of the awning, read, and I photographed a number of birds and some lizards.
We ate our lunch before setting off north once more. It was just a little over 100 km to Airlee Beach. We cut across country, and had to go over about 10 km of gravel road. It was full of potholes, and very rough. We probably didn’t go more than 20 km an hour over most of it (though the speed limit signs said 80), and the motorhome bounced and rattled along. Once we got off the gravel the road was fine again. We got here to Airlee Beach in the early afternoon, stopped at the bank to pick up our new bank cards, and then bought a bit of vegetables for supper’s stir-fry.
We checked in at the Big4 Airlee Cove and it is a very nice resort style caravan park. There is a nice pool, so we went for our first swim before supper. After supper Enid went to do the laundry. Unfortunately, one of the machines wasn’t working properly, and wouldn’t spin out the clothes. She thought that the clothes wouldn’t get dry, but they actually did. Although it was pretty warm during the day, tonight is a lovely cool evening.
Something happened to my computer tonight, as when I plugged in the hard drive to try and back it up, the computer shut down. It wouldn’t restart until I did a system restore. It seems to be working again correctly now, and I did get everything backed up. Now I am going to try and post some more pictures to www.digipac.ca/pictures.