Author Archives: Barry

Normal wake up time, with the patient’s only sign of injury being her multi coloured eyelid(s), some bruising appears to have spread to the other eye. We had an outdoor breakfast today. I was expecting a quiet lazy day to … Continue reading →

We left Townsville this morning after a (mostly) pleasant stay! We were only traveling a short distance today up to Cardwell about 200km North. Lyn has just about fully recovered now, with the exception of her multi coloured eye. We … Continue reading →

Despite been deprived of wine last night (doctors orders, Barry’s enforcement), Lyn continued to improve and woke up as expected this morning. The most noticeable difference in her appearance being that the bruising from her forehead has dropped down to … Continue reading →

I am running out of titles. Up at the usual time, after breakfast we headed off to the ferry terminal to take the boat across to Magnetic Island. There are numerous walks on the island, including one to a series … Continue reading →

Body clock back to correct timing! This morning we headed out of the motel to the local landmark, The Big Mango! As expected there are many mangrove orchards around the area. As an added bonus there was a geocache in … Continue reading →

Our body clocks are losing reliability, we were 10 minutes late getting up, luckily not a big deal as we had nothing planned before 10AM. After breakfast we hung around in the somewhat neglected room catching up with minor things … Continue reading →

Woke up on time again, although last night was quite noisy with all the wild life around. We didn’t see any more wild life overnight, but there were some new “deposits” on the front lawn to show that there was … Continue reading →

The internal body clock didn’t let us down again today. After a spartan breakfast we packed up the car and headed north. In some respects the distances between places of interest deceived us. 240km at home can often be covered … Continue reading →

The usual wake-up time and we provided out own breakfast today! It seems most motels provide a kettle, microwave, fridge and toaster which means we can do our own thing and remove the temptation of larger, greasier more “interesting” breakfasts. … Continue reading →

It seems that regardless of the time we go to bed, we still get up at our usual time. This morning it was a DIY breakfast courtesy of the motel. The night before, you choose your breakfast items e.g. cereal, … Continue reading →