Bad Weather

Sunday, 10 October 2010

Still stuck in Runaway Bay, the weather has been atrocious, torrential rain and gale force winds. There has been a lot of flooding around the Sunshine Coast, where we were last week.

Chez really has to get back to Port Macquarie because of commitments and has booked a flight for this coming Tuesday, she was only supposed to be with me for three weeks and it is now eight. She has been an absolute boon, I would never have been able to cope without her. She says it has been more of a learning curve rather than a holiday.

I’m stuck here until the weather improves which, probably, won’t be till end of this week, so I’m going to get the auto pilot fixed, even if it means sending it down to Sydney and awaiting its return.

Our fridge has now packed in so we went out and bought an esky and are now relying on buying a bag of ice every day. I’ll wait til I get back to Port to get that fixed. We’ve had to run down most of the stuff we kept in fridge and now have to go shopping every day for perishables. Have to brave the wind and rain, but we’ll catch a bus today.

The winds this afternoon were absolutely terrible, up to 45 knots, according to the internet. The long range forecast on “seabreeze.com” indicate that Thursday and Friday there is going to be good northerlies. Hope the auto pilot is fixed by then.