Lion Rock

Lion Rock

On Friday we had one of those days. The sun was shining the sea was like glass and so we cancelled everything, packed the boat with snorkels masks flippers, possibly a hundred towels and sarongs and enough food thrown into the esky (aka "cold bag"/"chilly bin"…) to keep hungry swimming kids and adults going for a decade or so. Oh and we also took our dog who likes to come for the ride but doesn't leave the boat, we think he is guarding it, not sure what from!

 We anchored up in a Bay and swam ashore and hunted for treasures which can be anything from a dead animal to a beautiful piece of sea glass and this time we were really lucky to find a Blue penguin resting on the sand. We couldn't believe it and of course gave it a wide berth so as not to scare it unduly. We hadn't seen one before. No photo as we couldn't swim ashore with a camera.

Lion Rock

After swimming, snorkelling, jumping off the boat and eating everything we cruised past the very aptly named Lion Rock and got home just before the wind got up. 

Blue x

Happy New Year & Emergency Gardening

Not a bad haul! 

Christmas and New Year over, visitors have left and I realised that the garden was in dire need of a quick fix before it all got totally out of hand, like it so often does here at Ripple Bay. It was so windy today that I battled my way to the hidden garden tucked behind our garage and pulled out weeds and things and trimmed and tied back tomatoes at a rate of knots. Felt very virtuous when I also found a whole hidden cache of yellow cherry tomatoes from a plant that was supposed to be in a trailing pot but which I had stuck straight in the ground last year in a fit of optimism.

Big bucket of weeds and things

makeshift driftwood bench

garden after the quick fix

My New Years Resolution? Get in the garden and keep on top of things? Nah, only joking. My real resolution is "DO MORE STUFF"! Thanks Kate (one of our groovy visitors) for the inspiration.

Happy 2014, Emma x

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