Woke to an overcast morning again. We had a low cloud cover and it looked like it might rain. However as the morning progressed the cloud cover blew away and it was a lovely sunny day.

I had a domestic morning cleaning the motorhome, doing some hand washing and generally tidying up our camp. Richard started his second book for the trip.

It came up quite windy in the afternoon so it was lovely to relax with a good book under our awning.

Went for a paddle in my fantastic inflatable kayak in the late afternoon. I’d bought the kayak on Amazon for $120 (Intex K1) and I love it because we can carry it in the motorhome packed up in its own bag. We wouldn’t be able to carry a hard shell kayak as there is nowhere to put one. Admittedly it is no performance kayak and it does ‘waggle’ a bit but then again, I’m no sports kayaker so it doesn’t really matter. It gets along the water pretty well and I find it very peaceful out on the water. This time I paddled west from Kangaroo Beach and made it around past the main picnic area to Platypus Point. Near the main beach there were a few young men mucking about on SUP’s and having fun pushing each other off into the water.

In the evening we walked up to David and Anni’s camp carrying our chairs, wine bottle and glasses. Anni had prepared a lovely cheese platter and then followed that up with Panko crusted chicken and roast vegetables. Delicious! David even made fruit salad for dessert (with no watermelon as I’m allergic). We had a great evening sitting around the fire with Anni’s music playing quietly in the background. Anni does love music!

While we were sitting around the fire the camp was visited by a family of possums. There was a mother with a baby who was still young enough to be carried on the mother’s back and another single possum. They seem to be quite used to humans as they came quite close.

Anni had spent the afternoon watching the amazing life cycle of cicadas. The trees around their camp are riddled with them. Funny that there’s none at all around our spot. Anni took great delight in watching them hatch out from their shell and finally spread their wings and fly.