Another lovely day weatherwise despite the forecast. In fact a typical lovely English summer day - hot in the sun but a bit chilly in the shade!

View from our walk

We did the same walk as a couple of days ago first thing this morning - having our coffee at the jetty cafe at the half way point. We saw not one but two metallic skinks in the same place going and coming back! This time one posed for us to take photos!

Metallic skink

Where we had coffee

We had our lunch out at a nice cafe in Merimbula and then did some shopping. Then we went back to Short Point beach for a paddle in the surf and in the lake at the back of the beach. We spotted some crested terns while we were doing this. It is a beautiful beach and guess what - another squeaky sand beach!

We also stopped off at another beach on the main lake side. The tide was out and it looked quite different from high tide. We got some good photos of a white-faced heron. They aren't quite as showy as our herons but I guess it's only fair that some of ours are better. It's hard to compete with rainbow lorikeet though!

White-faced heron

Late afternoon we decided to try out the pool here at the apartment. We go past it all the time when we go out and come back in and we have never seen anyone in it. Of course today when we wanted to go in there was a family there!! We gave them a bit more time and then went down and they didn't stay much longer. We enjoyed our swim and sat in the sun for a little while - too chilly to sit in the shade!

Steve is now putting himself through the nail biting process of watching England play cricket in Adelaide! Easier to watch here than at home I suppose!