Drifting through life

on Tuesday, I left you as we (the collective, royal, "we") were leaving the beach and heading towards Fisherman's Jetty. Before I went I took photos of the skatepark.....that's new to me... see that bare ground behind it? There's some sort of construction going on there....perhaps the skatepark isn't completed yet. I took a couple more photos of the causeway, aka John Pirie Bridge, one of each end..... the far end, and the near end. I'm not sure what the metal work is behind it, it belongs to the silos. In between the causeway and the silos is Fisherman's Jetty and to get there, I had to pass this.... looks like an old boat launcher to me. It's entirely enclosed in a wire fence with barbed wire topping. So I walked around it and on towards Fisherman's Jetty. In my memory, fishies wharf was rough and rustic, one long jetty with many small walkways leading off the side with two or three small boats tied to each walkway, eac...

I had a fabulous day, got on the bus this morning, stayed on as it passed through town, going through another suburb my younger son and daughter got on too, then we rode the bus all the way to Glenelg beach. It's so handy having a bus that goes right across town like that. At the beach, we three met up with other family members for our Christmas lunch get together. The weather was absolutely perfect, hot sun, cool wind, clear blue skies. We sat on the grass eating fish'n'chips while listening to the commentator as he described the races going on down on the sand. There was some sort of competition where contestants in various age groups ran around a course, swam a short distance, and waded through thigh high water. After the competitions were over and people were leaving the area we took a walk along Glenelg jetty. It's a lot shorter than I remember and there are no splintery boards to walk on, it has been surfaced with asphalt now. We reminisced, K and I, abo...