Thursday, 11 April 2019

Sun, 7th Apr, 2019 Malcolm Dam, east of Leonora, WA



7.30am 22 degrees, clear sky and light breeze. Got chilly in the early morning so had to pull up the blankets.

Helped Mark and Heidi reattach their awning after the wind ripped it off the other day.

Did the washing – back to using my little twin tub – works well.

Only a light breeze blowing but the heat is drying the clothes quickly. Steve has found a nice intact green hand blown bottle but it doesn’t have any markings or writing on it to work out what it had in it. Under the tree I found a Peck’s food paste contained – looks like a handlebar grip off a pushbike.



There was also a tin lid like the tobacco ones but this one said Chocolate and Cocoa company so I wonder what was in it.

Gave Kaylene and Rick a call. Still raining. They were having a drive around Yungaburra and Tinaroo Dam.

Lunch 32 degrees.

Drove into Leonora to top up the truck’s water tanks and then out to the homestead to see Kym and Glen. They had picked up my solar light that I had left in the tree at 10 Mile. ‘Roo’ is growing well and the calves are now out with the other bigger calves. Had a nice afternoon chatting. Kym gave me a container of her yummy pumpkin soup which we will enjoy.

Home for drinks with Heidi and Mark and their friends that are parked nearby. Claus and Mona and their friends Wolfgang and Kristina. They did some opal digging at Lightning Ridge years ago together and they showed us some of their lovely collection. Said our farewells as they are heading off to another area to detect and we are heading up to our 40E spot back on Tarmoola Station but west of where we were staying.

6.30pm 33 degrees and no wind. We watched the highlights of the Supercars racing in Tasmania on the laptop. Two years ago Malcolm was racing his little car there in a support group too and we saw him on the TV as it poured with rain and here he was sitting in his open cab car getting drenched.

8.30pm the breeze has picked up from the south and is cooling things down again.


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