(1054) Naturally you’ll never vote Labour, so the only issue is which other to vote for. Weeeelllll, we could discuss that forever. Was downstairs earlier, to my mind temp perfect, wind perfect. I checked upstairs … 19C, 3 mph. Has to be ideal. […] Afternoon all bythe way. (1214)
14. Seriously struggling here today
… to find anything political worth looking at. Bored wi’it all. This was fun:
13. TDS is up to its games again
The first item is paywall, subscribe wall, whatever … couldna be bothered. The second has an article attached but it’s open anyway … yes, these are the games the Met Bureau and RAF play.
12. You wot?
How dumb are Australians? I thought it was only Canadians, Brits and Americans … though the latter are redeeming themselves. This is from southern Victoria:
Again … you wot? Are you insane, woman? Sigh:
My stomping ground or sailing ground was lower right on the map. Portsea is for the toffs, govt ministers, slebs, lowlife film and music “stars”, Sorrento was the playground for city folk wanting a break, if you continue (lower right) down the coast line, there’s Blairgowrie, then Rye, with its long pier. Rye was where we were, inc. my boat of the time.
Once sailed to Mud Island, bit of a bore, very shallow. The Rye to Dromana area was relatively safe, could get rough, no chance of being dragged out of the heads. If you take a line from Point Nepean over to Point Lonsdale, that’s one of the world’s most treacherous waters … called The Rip.
Simple arithmetic says that when the tide turns at 10 knots and your craft does 7 knots or you swim at 3 knots, guess where you’re going to be swept out to, mateys? You see lower left on the map is open ocean, to be precise Bass Strait, a most treacherous crossing to Tas, even for a car ferry.
But you’d not make it that far. There’s a rock ledge under the water and whatever goes over it plunges to a depth of I forget … half a mile down? Maelstrom stuff, without the warning. So to actually swim out there from Lonsdale … insanity. Plus it’s a heavy duty shipping lane, both ways.
