29th June Venus Bay

Kms to Venus Bay 200                                            Kms to date 2100

I got here on Saturday after getting a negative Covid result on Friday.  This is the day I was supposed to start the Ride Around Australia and meet Alan at Wellington. That's all gone now and I have been cancelling and rebooking lots of accommodation and reading the fine print on the State's Covid border rules.

Venus Bay is a beautiful stretch of wild ocean beach and at the back Andersons Inlet and the Tarwin River.

Evening on the Tarwin River at Venus Bay.

I have been doing a few jobs for Catherine; like fixing the shed we gave her for Christmas down to the foundations so it wouldn't blow off them again and helping her neighbour Mike and his cousin to haul the very heavy Rayburn stove onto her verandah.

This Rayburn stove isn't very big but it still weighs 250 kgs!

This stove weighed a lot so we used the "Egyptian Pyramid Building Technique".  Rollers and an electric winch (as we didn't have any slaves handy).  Once it was on the rollers we could push it around with very little effort.  We left it at the back door and Catherine will prepare the area for installation and get her plumber hook it up.  They will be able to roll it into the kitchen.

 I went for a few beach walks as Venus Bay has a beach to die for.  I met this man surf fishing.  I should really give up this trip and start doing what he was doing!

 

Lone fisherman on the beach.

Another beautiful Venus Bay sunset.