More tourists

After trying to work out yesterday where we can actually park the car, my travel companion seems to have had a few nightmares and rolled out of bed really early, to check something that worried him about the parking. After begrudgingly rolling out of bed myself, it turned out everything was perfectly fine. Sigh, can I go back to bed now.

Either way, we are at the car now, so brum. We headed out of town into basically the next town worth mentioning. The hope in this was of course that the tourist concentration goes down in this process, but it did exactly the opposite. What great attractions this town had that attracted so many tourists, I never managed to find out. But if you managed to survive all the tourist restaurants and cafes, at the end of the line up there was a pharmacy, presumably as convenient recovery...

Heading further and further away from civilisation but sticking to the coast, continued to show a very continues tourist presence at the beach, including after there didn't seem to be much Road anymore. I'm curious how this will scale with the other trips we'll be taking across the country.

At some point in all this, we came across a dry dock, with a fairly large cargo ship being built. The nose looked painted and sea worthy while the back looked like a rust bucket. But since the nose was done, they started removing some of the construction platforms from there. This was attached to the boat, wooden planks to walk on, metal guard rails at two heights to stop you from falling off. To remove this, they had a small platform hanging from a crane that they put everything on. Only downside is that it's a little clumsy to take everything off the boat while standing on this platform, so they had one person slowly unscrewing the platforms he was standing on and handing the various planks to the mobile platform. And after a while, he also left the mobile platform behind and was still unscrewing...

Plans for tomorrow are being created as I write, about 3m to my left, but I need to catch up on sleep after the panic start this morning.

P.S. I know I'm nice and warm here, and terribly spoilt, but could Australia please start turning on the heating? These constantly freezing temperatures and rain don't exactly make an attractive prospect to return to.