Under the Sea

I went to the Doc's first thing about some red skin areas on my face. He had looked at them not to long ago and doesn't think there is anything carcinogenic hiding there. However I did get the three week Ufedex (Fluorouracil) skin torture treatment.  This is the one where you coat your skin with this skin eating cream which makes sores on the whole area then having stopped the cream your healing can start and provide you with a new skin layer.  I am to coat the area around my eyes, nose and forehead thus making a late halloween mask. I also finished a few short films on yesterday's Ozone swim.

Later cool off

It was 6:30pm and still very warm on our deck so we decided to amble down to the waters edge as we were already in our swimmers. That is the second set of swimmers for today.  Only six other people down on the beach and spread ways apart.  We just lolled 20 metres in and a banjo shark came swimming up to see what was happening.

cool aid

The Ozone

This was a ship that ran aground about 1925.  We have been trying to get to this wreck via the snorkel and flippers ever since we moved.  Last time we went during school holidays and they were like barnacles all over it.  Ideally you want high tide, sunshine, no wind and mid week school time. However shoot me with a spear gun, I am getting jealous of school kids theses days when a class turned up today in their snorkel gear for a lesson in wetsuit water wonders. Fortunately we timed our swims around theirs. We went out three times and the water depth at the wreck is sudden. You can walk 40 metres but the last 10 are deep.  There were no fish to see except for one ray, but the underwater parts of the wreck are worth it. Not to mention all the pelicans that call this part home.  I have video but will take some editing.

Pelican parade - Ozone background 

Melbourne - background

Salad lunch

Fish Food

Corn Jacks

I recommend these types of corny fritters. They are something like a potatoe rosti except with corn. You can get them at Barwon Edge. This is the place on the bike track along the Barwon River but I cannot figure out if it really is a boat club. I suspect it is a front for the restaurant. It has immaculate sumptuous grounds with pools and lily fronds, fountains and crocodiles. Well the head of one at least.
When we got back I tried my swim as well so I am going to need a rest this arvo.  As I came in to the back yard there was a burst of feathers where a huge prey bird lifted off from under the veggie patch carrying another bird in its claws.

yesterday's evening stroll

Bike track rest stop

I was smiling

Bridge Update

Went for a short ride around Drysdale mainly to check out the bridge progress.  I think it may have been December when I checked it out last.  Blustone lookalike retaining walls have gone up on each side so now it's a matter of filling them in.  We had headed back and five minutes later the train followed behind. So a good photo opportunity in future would be framing the train with the bridge. Timing that would be tricky.

Long Week ends

Long week ends are off our radar these days.  So when we drove to Port Arlington which is busy enough but with the Bellarine Show on because of the long weekend we had forgotten about, then its no wonder cars were blocking the side streets. Just last Sunday we said there is no reason to do stuff on the weekend.  Here it is a week later on a Sunday we squeezed into the Adina cafe.  The food wasn't anything spectacular this time so we might move on even though it has a good view. We noticed the Mussel cafe has opened in an old place on the main street. That will work better next time.

Evening walk

Too late for Halloween

Video File

I have just unloaded the video camera. There is stuff on there going back a few weeks.  I have been hanging back as video processing gives the computer a real workout and it has been labouring lately. It is nearly three years old but should still chew thru most stuff.  My stamp database has had a persistent error as well, requiring you to wait when trying to duplicate a record. All these things have gone away and performance has improved after I cleaned out the Google Chrome data caches the other day. So if your machine is a bit slow try doing the clean out of your browser on a regular basis. They will all try to remember too much stuff to make the browsing quicker next time.