Boatless days no more.....

The late summer sun has been almost flawless this weekend.  There have been late evening and early morning showers...but days are perfect.  Much like the theme song from the film "Camelot" which says something like, "by law it only rains at night".

 
We've been on the boat since Thursday which ended a 2 week (maybe a bit more) stint of boat less weeks.  The reason?  An air leak in the dingy.  Mind you this leak has been plaguing us for some time now...at least a year I think.   Mr G has doggedly tried to repair it with endless bouts of little circles of PVC glued in various suspicious places down one hull and then the other.  He refused to take the wee boat in for repair over and over again with the belief  he would eventually stop the leak.  When it became increasingly apparent that the leak was too evasive he broke down - amid some considerable nagging from me - and took it to be repaired.  He had decided that the repair would end up costing more than the dingy itself...so we went through a few days of worry - only to find that the bill was going to be a reasonable $300 or so.  Anyway... it's done now, back and working a treat. 

The dingy.. at work off the back of the boat.

We've ventured to different parts of the area this week.  The rainy nights and early mornings - plus the fact that the holidays are well and truly over - mean that during the week days there is hardly a soul out on the water.  Thursday night we moored in a little bay called 'Stingray Bay'.  It is lovely and very representative of the Australian bush in surrounds...rocky outcrops, big gum trees, and very wild looking.  The bay has an area that runs creek like way back into the bush.  We took a ride way down into the bush in the dingy with Molly and took these photos.  Molly, of course, taking every opportunity to hop ashore to sniff and pee until she was content she had left a mark.  Me, I was concerned for poisonous brown snakes...but, as usual, Mr G paid no attention to my concerns.

We're spending tonight - Sunday night - in a bay called Coasters Retreat or The Basin - before going back to our mooring and then home tomorrow.  This is a lovely place only accessible by boat.  On one side there are a few dwellings..houses clinging to the hill in what must be blissful or difficult seclusion ... you would have to be people living there to know the true definition.  On the other side of the bay is a popular campground run by the National Park.  Again you have to either take a ferry there or come in a private boat.  There is always a ranger or two on duty there so its very well regarded by families.  Here what it looks like from where we are now....

Home tomorrow and I'll show you the HUGE JELLYFISH we've seen all over during this voyage!