We all have breakfast by the pool. There's fresh tropical fruit: paw paw, mangosteen and dragonfruit. Sue and I decided the mangosteen is a winner but the paw paw and dragonfruit are bland.
Pete and Sue and I check out a couple of car hire places, as we want an 8 seater van for Friday and Saturday. Then we walk down Mowbray Street to the beach. It's a beautiful stretch of sand backed by vegetation. There are lots of people walking up and down the beach, but only a few actually swimming. They have a lifeguard and flags to swim between and the risk of stingers today is low.
There's a path up the headland and we admire the view. Pete turns back at Murphy Street and Sue and I continue on to the Lookout and the old Lighthouse. On the way back we visit the Historial Museum at the old Courthouse. They have a display about the only woman hanged in Queensland. She was accused, along with her alleged lover, of shooting her husband, a local farmer. There's a video reenactment which is quite well done.
We came home and went for a swim in the pool again. The others headed off to the pub for lunch and betting on horses and watching the football. Sue and I decided to take the Lady Douglas cruise up the inlet. We made it to the marina with enough time to grab a sandwich for lunch before the boat left. There were about 30 people on board. Ian drove the boat and gave us commentary, and Nikki served us our complimentary drink and put out the nibbles. The main attraction of the cruise is crocodile spotting and Ian said this was a good time for them because when the weather gets colder they spend more time on the banks sunning themselves, and at low tide they're more visible. We sighted three crocodiles, plus mud skippers, catfish and a welcome swallow. My camera ran out of battery (again) so I missed some photo opportunities.
After the cruise we explored the marina (lots of shops, many of them closed on Saturday afternoon) and then walked along the shoreline. We found the combined service club (deck overlooking the water, reasonably priced food). There's a little church, St Marys, which is very popular for weddings. When we met up with Pete and Jim at the pub Jim said he'd been watching, and there was about one wedding an hour. Now we're back home. Sue finished the crossword I'd been stuck on. The boys are upstairs drinking beer and eating cheese.
The others aren't going out for dinner but Pete wants to go to the beer garden at the Central to watch football on the big screen. It's noisy and crowded and there's a long queue to order meals. When I get to the head of the queue I find out that there's a 45 minute wait and anyway they're out of lamb shanks ("I don't believe it" says Pete) so Pete abandons the football and we retreat to the Tin Shed. Luckily the Tin Shed has XXXX bitter on tap so Pete's appeased, and Sue and I have champagne cocktails which are on special fo $5.50. The food's great, and we're sitting on the deck, but it's too dark to see the view over the water except for occasional boats sailing into the marina.
We come home, and Pete goes downstairs to watch the end of the football with boys, and Sue and I have a quiet evening reading and an early night.
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