me & my monkey

Still stuck in Nelson hoping for better news tomorrow. There is only so much you can do here so Jenny is catching up on her reading and I’ve been contemplating my navel (I told you things are grim)

If we don’t come out of lockdown on Thursday we will still need to go to Portland to do our food shopping as we are nearly out of most things. Still got meat but no vegetables, fruit or salad items. We bought up the local supply of frozen veggies the other day (a whole two packets of frozen food) plus some tins of tomatoes and mixed vegetables. Apparently the closest supermarket is in Mount Gambier but I don’t think we will be allowed across even though we do have a permit but it was issued before the lockdown. We await the news.

It appears we are permitted to travel the 70kms to Portland for essential food supplies. But, in the spirit of helping local communities, we decided we would walk down to the little kiosk here at Nelson. We were able to get some frozen and canned vegetables that should see us through till Thursday. We even bought a couple of homemade pies to have as a treat tonight seeing that we can’t go to the local pub for a counter meal. Living it high in Nelson with one eye to the future.

Wouldn’t you know it, another lockdown to dampen our plans. We had planned on visiting our niece in Portland tomorrow but now that has had to be postponed. Luckily Jenny got her fishing in this morning at Simsons Landing, a nice little boat ramp on the Glenelg River not far from our caravan park. Unluckily she caught nothing, apparently a common occurrence around here at the moment.

We don’t have any choice in the matter – either head home or wait it out here. The caravan park has well maintained facilities so it will be just a few days of enforced relaxation with just a walk out of the park for exercise. Things could be worse.

We dawdled down to the river so Jenny could go for a fish (but apparently he had left on the outgoing tide). Nevertheless, she persevered while I did my patient husband act, snapping a few photos and just enjoying the outdoors. We applied for a permit to enter South Australia and we got one but when I explained to Jenny that we would have to ditch all our fruit and vegetables because of the quarantine restrictions, she decided it may not be the best idea after all.

We will stay here another day so Jenny can fight round 2 with the fish and we will stroll down the surf beach , hand in hand, to watch the time roll by.

We called into Portland to walk the streets before having fish and chips on the foreshore. We headed down the road to Nelson only to discover that the River Vu Caravan Park was choc-a-block and no room for these little black ducks! We ended up going to the Kywong Caravan Park. We’ve decided to stay two nights so that Jenny can go fishing tomorrow.

Just took it cruisy today, left camp at around nine before heading onto Hamilton for our morning cuppa. Had a tour around the lake there then moved onto Nigretta Falls for a walk down to the falls. Unfortunately there isn’t much water going over at this time of year but they would be spectacular in winter.

From there we travelled 8 kilometres to the Wannon Falls Campground and set up camp amidst the trees and the magpies. We’ll go for a walk down to the falls after another cuppa. We can’t rush these things.

We spotted a local on our walk back from the falls