sydney in sight

29-10-07. Rain softly in the night parked up among trees stifling the wind. Anxious
wait for word of transport. Time of departure 28 november looming. Shipping takes
three weeks. Then as if by majic the gloom cleared revealing alto cumulus. In to
byron for busy bustle. No message from china. Two handwavers and some stickers,
encouragement from long time supporters. Nothing new but. Oh for a breakthrough! Wategos where the wind whipped flag round the pole. Less travelled here though audience drifted past.
30-10-07. Byron resort at end of road. Sky blue, river running out thick and black
from the rain carving curves in the sand. Noisy miner chirps curiously thrown like a
ventriloquist. The tended landscape, clumps of vegetation with woodchips. Went to
lismore for dinner with cousin jim. 31-10-07. Twenty species bird sighted early
morning in this beautiful piece of country. Pidgeon with black wings and white body. On to grafton where aldi had one last $99 camera! Still, hot and humid. Staggered on to coast seabreeze chilly felt almost good. Barby lunch pasta herring. Spoke to inkman's wife, read australian and parked up surfside in rain. camera instructions mean possibilities for calendar collection. 14. scene mode A auto icon sport icon night crescent moon and star followed by portrait, landscape, backlight. Roll on thunder. I've got a microphone! Rain steady rain came down relieving the heat that persecuted me for days.
1-11-7 Coffs Harbour. Shipment due seventh sydney! Pasta lunch and parkup facing south east. Overcast occasional drops. Caravan couple got burge for flagpole. Six stickers went to bellingen bound for cars. Comfortable in my seat in back, hatch up for shelter. Wondering where to plant trees in this bare place barren head land stripped and paved. Library for more madness sorting out delivery. Got call from toll so i'm making progress.
2-11-7 So what is surfer's fascination with a wave? Body on natural steroids, the
rush and an infinite variety of thrust like a sailor seeking wind. Here the sand
trucked away a seeming infinite resource export the beaches. Go the aussies! Boogy board boys, one got sticker. Year eleven cutie got sticker. Union bloke promised six cars.
3-11-7 Macauleys beach carpark effort top result. Black cockatoos. More overcast,
more humid. Afternoon crowd so different - no interest the starting point. Still the
kookaburra came down, got a green caterpillar, alighted on railing, whacked lunch a few times and swallowed, looked me in the eye and flew back to next perch. arvo wore on. sun appeared. tide came in. gulls passed in great numbers. chorus of cicada. peep peep peep peep peep very rapidly. Auto traffic round the turnaround. A substantial effort til after five. Handwavers three or four. And an endless sream of surfers.
4-11-7 Grey goshawk at diggers beach. Then marina market spruik excellent. Free
coffee and cucumber. Zuchini larger than a football one dollar, bananas one kilo one dollar. Another overcast day, warm. Barby shower beer. Good good.

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