03 10.07

ST LAWRENCE

Left Bert and Irene at 1530 and travelled down to St Lawrence and stayed at an excellent free camp with great facilities and dollar in the slot hot showers, absolutely fantastic. Probably better than the town which is very basic, called into the general store which we had seen last trip (12 years ago) and had always regretted not going into, but it wasn’t that good.

WE had a phone call from Ness just after arriving to say Andre’s operation on his ear didn’t go as well as we had hoped and he is in high dependency. This has put a cat among the pigeons and means we may have to change plans.

This morning Bert and I went out to visit a friend of his who has a collection of old stationary engines and also old outboards, rather incredible as he only began 10 years ago. Di and Irene went shopping!