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Yet another warm, sunny day!! being the weekend it was time to relax 🙂

After cleaning Lyn’s bike yesterday it was time to do mine. That took me to lunchtime…. after lunch it was time to try and get an antenna up for my radio gear, unfortunately the plan to mount the antenna on top of the roof ladder failed initially, but a quick trip to the local hardware store for a length of ABS piping and a couple of U clamps solved the problem. One antenna is now up, and another will be going up next week

Once it started to cool down we went for a bike ride around the local area for about 35 minutes.

This evening we went to the local Steak & Seafood house and had a superb meal to celebrate our 34th anniversary.

Finally got around to unloading the bikes this morning, even got as far as cleaning Lyn’s, which was quite a haul as we have not used the bikes since we moved house. After lunch we decided to embark on our first trip out today as I finally figured I could get back into the truck!

Destination was a small island on the coast about 5 miles a way. To get on the Island you pay a $5 “parking fee” which goes towards the upkeep of the place. Obviously the money is spent where it should be as the place was very well kept.

We then walked on a  long beach with very fine sand, good enough to rival any Caribbean beach.  

In one of the small parks around the island there were no signs warning that alligators lived there, nor were there any warnings that alligators could be bad for your health, just a solitary sign saying

so much for the nanny state.

The island also had a number of very large houses (referred to in many cases as cottages”) from the turn of the last century. Also many equally old trees!

Also on the Island was a Sea Turtle Rescue centre that was well worth a visit.

Sitting on the wharf by the Restaurant was a Great Egret

On returning home, the evening meal was flame broiled burgers!!!

Another warm day, up to around 28C, drops down to about 14C at night. The front of the trailer appeared to have inherited about 50% of all the bugs in Georgia, so off to the local hardware store to get hose pipe for the trailers first ever shower. Got the hose all connected up, climbed up onto the back of the truck so I could reach the high spots ( the beast is about 13ft high, which needs to be remembered when filling up) switched the water on and sprayed the trailer, turned the water off and the hose connector commits suicide, water everywhere! Back to the hardware store for a replacement, guy looks at hose and says words to the effect of “Well I ain’t not never seen nothing like that before”, so given there were four negatives in that sentence, does it mean he has or has not seen the problem before??

Anyway, back with a new hose, and back to cleaning. It really is quite amazing how deeply embedded some air kill can get.

Following the cleaning (of which only a third of the trailer got done…. got to save work for another day) it was over to the pool for another refreshing dip.

The trailer is pretty well sorted out, all I have to do now is remember where Lyn has put everything. Now I have has a couple of days free from long distance driving, we’ll probably head. out tomorrow to find the coast

The camper is now all set up with lifes essentials, cable TV, water, sewer, hydro (which for some obscure reason is known as electricity down here, hydro is an unknown word). Spent the morning assembling the satellite dish and getting it pointed in the right direction, using approximations when you are trying to point a 75cm dish at a 3m satellite 22400kms away makes for difficult life, got it working on the second attempt though. Managed to get the phone working as well, so the home phone number will now reach us. Lyn’s cell phone doesn’t want to work down here!

After all the hard work it was time to head over to the pool, which was only a tad warmer than the lake, but it had the desired cooling effect, and as only Canadians are brave enough to enter such frigid waters, we had the pool to our selves, reserving loungers with a towel at first light is not a requirement!

We started EARLY, up at 7AM (remember this is us, and we’re on vacation!). We drove for about 5 hours, had lunch and then the final hour to the campsite. Average fuel consumption was 11.8 MPG for a distance of 1881kms / 1175 miles.

The campsite is amazing, one year old, nice flat concrete pads for the rig, and picnic table. Spotlessly clean, and the washrooms  and showers are amazing, again spotlessly clean, ceramic tiled showers, marble sinks etc. I think we are being spoiled here. Temperature pretty close to 30C, A/C is my friend!