It’s a nice place Robe though a bit crowded in the season just like any other seaside place I guess. I remember a holiday in Skegness in what was laughingly called late season. For those that don’t know Skeggy it’s on the flattest part of the earth where even the horizon is flat add in the fairgrounds and the biting wind driving sleet through your body instead of round it. Well I imagine Robe is similar in winter without the sleet but today was pleasant enough and the crowds from the first night were gone so we had a big breakfast meaty style for me and vego style for Hol. I do wish they would desist from chucking hash browns onto the plate, still I suppose some people like them. After the latish breakfast it was back to the cabin and a briskish walk to the coast through what’s left of the tea tree swamp vegetation. It was a pleasant walk though.
The following day Hol hit the local shops for presents for the family and it took a surprisingly long time wether that was because there was so many shops, unlikely, or that the range in the few shops there are had such a wide range or it could be that Hol just likes taking her time shopping. Bingo. Then sightseeing at the old jail, the obelisk and Cape Jaffa foine woines. As this took most of the day we adjourned back to the cabin and Hol got her revenge at Scrabble while I was distracted by the titanic struggle between the mighty Bangladeshis and the minnows that are the English cricket team. They did run them close but not quite close enough still there’s always next time. I am if the truth be told, having a terrible time with sports teams. I seem to be the kiss of death to my rugby league, rugby union, football, cricket even tiddlywinks if I had a team to support they would disown me asap. So I will leave Robe as a fuzzy memory, must be the photos I try to take, or the foine woines.
Before I finish the Robe story the bird a day proved very problematical as there was just an overload of potentials from purple-gaped honeyeaters in the campground, even a Bristlebird at Cape Jaffa but I counted two albatross species and a lonely looking Arctic Skua. As for picking the dogs up at the kennels they were to say the least overjoyed and they jumped into the back of the car this to say the least is unusual we normally have to pick them up and put them in the car. I reckon they knew they were on their way home and just wanted to speed the process up.
I should also mention the reason why Robe is there, during the gold rush period the Victorian government imposed a 10 pound tax on chinese people landing in Victoria, so the SA government opened up the port of Robe and the poor buggers had to walk the 200 odd k to the goldfields of Ballarat. bye the bye 10 pounds is the same as the fare from Shanghai to Australia. Makes you think whether they wanted people without who the gold would probably be still in the ground.