I wonder if we would be surprised if we added up how many days on the trip we have needed to do Admin, boring chores or simply recover days.
Today was one of those days. Gem read her book and ‘recovered’ while Dunc applied for a government contract that had caught his eye. This required a lot more work than any of the other jobs he has applied for. That’s the government for you – generating paperwork, but at least now he sympathised with Gems previous application.
Gem had been out walking along the river during the morning, dodging rain showers. The smell of the Australian bush was so wonderful and familiar. It really was good to be home.
When Jeff got back from work (Cecile had left early this morning to go to Sydney for work), he took us to see the bats. A great colony of grey headed flying foxes roosted in a park near his apartment. Apparently at dusk it is quite a spectacle to watch the bats gather and collect before going off to feed in the suburbs. Unfortunately we didn’t really get the timing right and were there way to early to see them fly. But it was quite funny to watch them in the trees, stretching their wings and chattering to each other. One of them even had a little baby who crawled in a very ungainly fashion over its mother while she hung upside down.
As we all had some food shopping to do and dusk was quite a while a way, we had to say goodbye to the bats before they took flight. We thought perhaps that we might come back tomorrow night to see them.
