Coastal Pathway South

Went for a walk alongside the Pumicestone Channel. This is the quiet waterway between Bribie Island. Except for when the Seadoos startup.  Otherwise paddling both standup and sit down seem to be the go here. Getting across to the island would be less than 100 metres. There are many eateries for breakfast and as well as barbecues and parkland. The Big 4 is nearby with waterfront cabins at $1700 a week in summer.

coastal path south

seaside rendezvous

Rumba

The Rumba in Caloundra is an apartment style hotel with full kitchen, laundry, spa tub bathroom and big balcony views over the ocean and the passage to Bribie island as well as views out to the glasshouse mnts. Should be a good home for the next week. The pools just below look good with see through portholes on all sides.

Rumba Pools

Distant Glasshouse

Nice Guys

The flight from Melbourne to Sunshine Coast allows enough time for one film as long as you get started on the tarmac and don't pause for the drink trolley.  Not sure if Nice Guys was supposed to be action or comedy. I did get a couple of laughs so I guess it is a bit of both. Balancing the ipad on your knees is not the best position but it works ok for one film.

Nice Guys who kill

Funerals, Food & Flanagans

We were just commenting on the ills of smoking. This is the third funeral I have been to where the deceased was a heavy smoker and their dying times were ages 55, 58 and 65.  Now if that isn't a message about an early grave then what is.  Some time back we went on a wander through the Werribee gorge and finished up at the Jolly Miller. Well over the road in Bacchus Marsh is Flanagans historic pub. There seems to be a bogan element at 1:00pm on a Wednesday, the steak sandwich was ok though.

Bacchus God of wine

Dogs of War

Appropriately this book is published by Corgi. For some reason it is stamped on the inside cover with Nambucca Heads newsagency. Fred Forsyth wrote this book in the early 1970s.  It is more about how to organise a war rather than the war itself which in this case lasted less than an hour. There was a lot of letter writing and use of cheques. No hint of email or internet in those days.

Foodies day

Fathers Day could well be Foodies Day after Mushroom Risotto for lunch at Max's Corner. Good service and fast delivery here. Then that evening it was homemade Pumpkin Soup, Pumpkin Pizza and Apple Pie. Not to mention the fudge cake I made.  It worked out because I was given a mattress and a good book to lie down with afterward.

Bike Touring made comfy

Video History

Converting old Digital Audio Tapes (DAT) into files that can be viewed from the network is turning out to be another time taking exercise.  I must have at least 50 tapes that have been copied to files each around 60 minutes long.  Taking each one of those and identifying where clips start and finish to build up an index file of contents then to split those into components and edit them can take up to 4 hrs per tape.  I have done about 6 files so far.  These cover from the 2000 Olympics where I first used this camera to around 2009.  Before that it was Compact 45s. They will have to wait.

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