Judy & Brian Tour Oz

Hi, well, I'm out of sync with the days as they roll on by but hey, what can one do? I'm just a little annoyed at Google right now because they have arbitrarily forced me over from Picasa web albums to Google+. Now I don't like or need Google+, so I've spend some time finding out how to get back to Picasa. Highlight of yesterday was a camel ride along Cable Beach at sunset. After the test drive in Alice, I was pretty happy not to repeat the event as it's just damn uncomfortable. But somehow here we were saddling up for the one hour trek. Most interesting part was the cameleer, who at 18 seemed to have a an opinion on everything that was wrong with the world and politics and didn't mind sharing. God bless the zealots of the world. Today we went and ogled the Dawn Princess that came into town. I was on the beach this morning as it rounded the headland - you could still see half of the superstructure as it slid by on the other side! Took advantage of the loca...

We had a lovely relaxing day today, with no travel except to get a new lightbulb for the chariot and to sightsee at a few spots around town. Ended up at the top of Cable Beach where we had a big long walk, watched the camels,wondered at the bods with their $80k Toyomotors on the beach and then strolled back to Zeebar to sip champagne (or a pina colada in Judy's case,) chomped away at some lovely string fries and watched the sun set not so slowly into the Indian Ocean. Trouble is, it's now dark and it's only 5:30pm, yet feels like 8. Me. He man!