Monday 8 August 2011

August 2011

On July 24, the Sun (Brooklyn speak for ferry), and the sun that provides light and warmth, both returned to Brooklyn, after, for the former, a short time on the slips, and for the latter, a spell of true winter weather.
John, at the popular King Tide Cafe, says this winter has been much better for them than the last, as there have been so many brilliant days interspersed with the dull ones.

The Sun appears to be watertight below the rub rail now, but above, on the port side, two thirds is clad only in plywood, presumably temporarily, while some work is being carried out on the frame.

The girls at River Dreams at Hawkesbury River Marina have the name up above the shop entrance, which looks splendid.  Their end of July sale was successful and has enabled them to display their new stock to great advantage.

Trish's wonderful "Broken Spines" bookshop is such an asset to Brooklyn and she stocks secondhand books, including children's, fiction and non-fiction, on a wide range of subjects.

Last week we had a visitor from Point Lonsdale in Victoria.  Rick Stockley, of Marine Cabs, was waiting  for his son to return by train from school, and we asked him to take us on a little river cruise.  We started by dropping his son on Dangar Island, where Rick and his family live, then to Little Wobby, round Dangar Island, then under the rail bridge where he showed us the Aboriginal birthing rock.  Then back under the railway bridge, where Rick pointed out the holes drilled in the pylons of the original railway bridge, into which explosives were to be packed if the Japanese had taken Sydney.  Rick is very knowledgable about the river and has a larger cab for groups.

At Little Wobby there's a racing yacht hull which is attracting attention and comment.  It is being prepared for the summer racing season and is an entrant in this year's Sydney Hobart.

Q Rex, the bow-return clinging dinosaur is back, having spent a week or two in the hull of the tinny it is usually enhancing.

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