Cable Beach

Tues 2^nd July

Today George managed to wipe out half of the park’s power supply and had to track down the electrical fault in his van. It turned out to be some doover that disperses the power that had had it. It’s all been sorted now. We went down to the beach just after the turn of the tide and watched it go out about half a km in a couple of hours.

 

 

 We watched two blokes trying to launch a boat off the beach. They took the trailer off and then pushed and heaved it into the water. Then it got stuck and it still wasn’t in far enough to get the boat off. So they attached the snatch strap to it and the car and dragged it up on the back again. After a huge effort they managed to get the trailer back into the water and to get the boat off.  One bloke then stayed with the boat and was trying to stop it being washed ashore by the waves while the other tried to drag the trailer out of the water. They were both working to the max. After a huge expenditure of effort the trailer was on the sand and all he had to do was back the car down and hook it on. Well his problems had barely started, he couldn’t line it up. He backed back, got out and looked, got back in the car and went forward at least 20 time.  Every time he went back, he wasn’t close enough and he didn’t have the strength to lift it onto the tow ball. In the meantime, the boat ran into the shore. We weren’t there when they got back and had to repeat the whole operation.  I bet their wives think they were having a fantastic time out in the boat while they were stuck at home slaving over a hot stove and minding the kids.

 

While all of this was happening we watched a couple of kayak tours , we saw the boats on wheels transporting people out to bigger boats, there were fishing charter boats going out, lots of other people launching and loading boats, people walking dogs, families playing on the beach, people on the sand and in deck chairs reading, people on horses in the water and people just driving along the sand and sight-seeing. With the cloudless blue sky and the sun sparkling on the water it was a memorable day.