We spent two rest and recovery days at Lee-Anne’s.
She introduced us to her dachshund, Diver, as well as other “snags” (sausages) that go on the “Barbie” (BBQ), and showed us the local platypus virtually in her backyard! All with “no dramas”.
Such a godsend.Home of platypuses (platypi?) although they’re nocturnal, so mainly seen at dusk or dawn when the photography isn’t as great.After the initial down day when we didn’t leave the house, we tried a small outing to town and followed the ‘pulp and paper trail’.Burnie used to be a mill town: The Pulp, as it was known, used locally grown eucalyptus and pine and made paper for 60 years. It closed in 2010.This is one of the marble rollers from “The Pulp”. Over the course of its working life, it lost 5cm off its diameter.Flis was moving pretty slowly, but said biking was easier than walking. And also that my pants were more comfortable than her leggings and fit in better with the local amenities. We found a local brewery… where F tried a cranberry mocktail while I enjoyed their coffee porter. It’s weird here that a tasting flight (usually a set menu $20-25) costs double what a pint does ($9-12).…and then we found a place selling mash-in-what-you-like ice cream.
That was arduous, so we took a rest on the beachfront and watched a new-to-me water sport: a swimmer has a board with handles and a fin like a surf board and either kneels and paddles with both arms together or lies on their stomach and does something like an unsubmerged front crawl. Bizarre!
The kneeling version looks kangaroo inspired. If you have any idea what this is, please share!The sun was hot but the wind was cold. Therefore… style!For supper, we tried fish and chips again (this one actually turned out to be shark)… not our favourite, but full marks for this great view!
Then, we pushed the energy budget to stay out late because this area is home to a healthy population of little penguins, and there’s a group of volunteer guides that run an observation at dusk. They were cute, funny, and surprisingly noisy! The penguins, that is.
This buddy is midway through his 17-day “catastrophic moult”, so he’s probably thirsty, hungry, and itchy. The guides handed out bits of red cellophane to those people unequipped with red bike lights. (White light distresses the penguins at night).
BC by Cycle 
sounds like you might have been watching someone doing their surf life-saving sport: https://youtu.be/aIdAqxtpa88?feature=shared
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burnieslsc.org.au
Burnie Surf Lifesaving Club
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The orange trousers between the red and yellow huts! Wow.
And is the booby shirt looking a bit seaweedy?
So glad to see you you and about. XXXOOOXXXMom
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