I'm lazy and selfish and spend too much time on the internet. I love to be creative with photography and jewellery and sketching with pencil and pastels. I'm happier now than I have ever been and I love everything about my life ... where I live, my home, my fantastic grown up children, my lifestyle, my friends, my dogs and last but not least my wonderful adoring husband. Life is good!
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Three major events occurred for me last year (2010), all in the space of about 2 weeks. I turned 50. The following day I got married. Two weeks later, my oldest daughter became pregnant with her first child and my first grandchild.
Most middle-aged people will tell you that in their minds, they still feel 20 something. It's the same for me.
Wasn't it only yesterday that I was planning a night out with guys from the surf club? That gorgeous new perm. Flaired, cuffed denims and the red t-shirt with the off-the-shoulder frill. Corked platform wedgies. **sigh**
Suddenly I'm looking in the mirror and wondering how 30 years can flash by so damned quickly!
So here I am in cyberspace, sharing my genuine shock and horror with anyone who'll listen and maybe I'll even meet some other over 50s who find themselves in the same predicament!
17 year-old Juliane Koepcke was sucked out of an airplane in 1971 after it was struck by a bolt of lightning. She fell 2 miles to the ground, strapped to her seat and survived after she endured 10 days in the Amazon Jungle.
After ten days, she found a boat moored near a shelter, and found the boat's fuel tank still partly full. Koepcke poured the gasoline on her wounds, an action which succeeded in removing the maggots from her arm. Out of 93 passengers and crew, Juliane was the only survivor of the LANSA flight 508 crash that took place December 24th, 1971.
I spent the morning cooking breakfast, playing with Harley and editing the whale photos. …
These are the best of the bunch. My photography skills are obviously a bit rusty, but I’ll get more practise this month.
I spent the afternoon watching the footy and feeling bitterly disappointed that Cronulla Sharks decided to come good this week! They’ve ruined my perfect round because I tipped Souths to beat them.
I looked at the whale photos today and some of them are pretty bloody good … even if I do say so myself!
I will edit them tomorrow and hopefully post some here tomorrow night.
BGWLBH and I drove into The Bay today to purchase a mop bucket for Adoring Husband. His work bucket broke and currently he is having problems with his shoulder and sometimes the pain is so bad, he can’t drive because turning the steering wheel hurts.
So we did a run to Bunnings and along with the bucket, we bought some potting mix.
We drove over to the Boat Club to book and pay for our next whale watching trip on 21st August. We became members last year so that we could get cheaper rates for whale watching. We lunched while we were there.
Officeworks got a visit from us, as well as the newsagent in Scarness, the bakery and Urangan Fisheries.
We arrived home quite late so I played with and fed Harley, shelled my sand crabs and king prawns, made the marinade for our chicken and then sat.
After another big day in the bay buying breakfast, tape, paint, books, baskets, pillows, lotto, lemons, organic castor oil, pens, Harley toys, juices, eggs and lotto, then picking up the FROG box, I am just about done in.
The weather was appalling with black clouds, heavy rain and cold winds.
We arrived home late, almost 4pm, so there was only time to unpack our goodies and have a quick play with Harley before preparing dinner. I crumbed the leftover chicken and BGWLBH prepared the salad.
Today’s whale watching trip goes into my top five of all time. I estimate that I’ve whale watched approximately 25 times. Once or twice each year for the from 2006 - 2017, then, due to a terrible weather day where I was incredibly unwell, no whale watching for five years, three times last year and once today.
There was a pod of five whales. One female being fought over by four males. It was FULL ON! The males were jumping and rolling onto each other and they were all swimming super fast under and around the boats. The males were opening their mouths and filling them with water and air to make themselves look bigger and stronger.
A couple of the males were bleeding from where they knocked their barnacles off. They were roaring from their blow holes.
All the while, the female was rolling onto her back and slowly flapping her fins onto the water.
This lasted for about an hour and then we had to start heading back to the marina.
On the return trip, we found two more whales. A male and female. The male looked all cut up on his head like he’d been fighting and all his barnacles had been knocked off. He placed himself half under our boat and wouldn’t move. The female just floated beside the boat, every so often bobbing her head up to say hello.
Boats are not allowed to turn their engines on when whales mug them like that, so we were stuck there for a good 40 minutes and had to call on another whale watching boat to come get the whales attention.
We didn’t get back to the marina until 1.05pm and the boat was supposed to leave for the afternoon whale watch at 1pm. The crew had to clean the boat before the new customers came on board.
I haven’t even looked at the photos yet but here are a couple of short videos from the day …
After spending three hours holding up my 4kg camera and lens, my back was burning and I was exhausted!
It was 1.30pm by the time we left the marina and since we hadn’t eaten all day, we stopped at Su Jus for some energy providing juice. It was the longest drive home and it was 2.30pm when we walked in the door.
I lay down with Harley on the couch until moving to the lounge room for an hour. I took Harley outside for a short play and then I collapsed on my bed where I fell into a deep sleep for two hours.
I’m still tired so it’s back to sleep for me now. Too much fresh air for one day haha.
