It rained, hard, during the
night, had to get up and close windows again but it was still super hot and
humid - the rain only cooled it down marginally. A few dead branches fell making loud thumps
on the ground, yikes - none on us thankfully.
It’s going to be another hot one,
already 30C+ and we are only on 30 amp (which being so far away has voltage
drop which affects what we can run electrically wise) so one AC is doing it’s
best to manage the heat. Just as well we
have shade here. Glad we are not in
northern California where they are experiencing temps up in the mid 40’s! They have lost some people in this heat wave.
I’ve got another 65 books loaded
on my Kindle so that should keep me entertained for a couple of weeks! Nuthin’ better than ‘laxing back, on your
recliner, in the sun, having a read!! I
am looking forward to my new Kindle, the later models have a lot more features
which I would absolutely use, plus my old cover is worn out and falling to bits
: ( Def’ need a new one!
I’ve made coffee and as we have
no internet !!! open our ‘manuals folder’ and start to read the ‘I Phone User
Guide’ for entertainment, well I never knew it could do some of this stuff,
very interesting reading and I only got 30% of the way through.
Anyway it’s time for an explore, so
off to the swim beach we go. We take the
bikes, those little slopes you hardly notice in the coach are much more
noticeable on the bikes, even with the gears!
Being Saturday there are a lot of people, mostly day trippers I guess,
at the swim beach. And there is a wedding happening at one of the shelters,
aww, a bride and she looks beautiful too!
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| Falls Lake Swim Beach |
The lake water is rusty brown,
and there is a posted warning to shower afterwards and not drink any, as
if!! But it was refreshing, even if a
bit warm and it did get deep enough to swim in.
We were there for a couple of hours and then rode back for a late lunch.
I braved the sunshine outside but had to get under the hose to cool down in between times!
The power voltage still drops so
we have run the generator to keep the AC ticking along this afternoon. So about 5.30, we hear the distant drum of
thunder and within 20 minutes we are skeltering to get the chairs and the wet
togs and towels inside, the awnings out,
the drinks inside, the windows open and others closed, those which are not
sheltered by the awnings, OMG it is very busy!
Our new neighbours, holidaying from Ireland in a Minnie Winnie, a Dad
and two sons I think come over to ask about the power situation. They got here just in time, before the rain
set in.
There is quite a bit of water lying in
pools outside, maybe I should be looking for beavers tonight rather than
racoons!
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