Exploring on Saturday

We had breakfast in the local cafe. My poached eggs and bacon were delicious and my iced latte was good and strong

Freyja and Simon had smashed avo
on sourdough

Then we went to the wildlife park. There were lots of koalas and macropods - although there are also lots of agile wallabies pottering around outside the wildlife park

I am not a koala OR a wallaby.
I am the Mighty McCulloch!

Then to Catseye beach

It is a very lovely beach

One of the good things about Hamilton Island is that there are two shuttle services which loop around the more populated part of the island. The green shuttle, which runs every 10 minutes and more or less services the hotels and the resorty bits, and the blue shuttles which loops around a larger part of the island and runs every 30 minutes. Both of these are free, and operate as hop on, hop off services. We rode on both of them. We did not hop off, except just past the airstrip where the driver had a five minute break, so we did too.

We had lunch at Sails, in the resort centre. My Vietnamese style noodle salad was delicious and my lychee and cranberry mocktail was delightful. So was the lunchtime view

Freyja and Simon went swimming, not in the sea but in the public pool.

We drove around the island in our golf buggy. 

This put me immediately in mind of
Wildcat Island (Swallows and Amazons),
transplanted from the Lake District to the tropics

We met another neighbour, guarding the entrance to our buggy garage

It's a yellow bellied tree snake
so not venomous
but we kept out of its way anyway
and did not run it over with our buggy

And we enjoyed delightful sunset views from our apartment

and from the marina

It was a good day - apart from when Simon discovered that his vital medication had cracked and was leaking. The local pharmacy had a replacement but it was the wrong brand and his script didn't cover it. But even that was resolved with a phone call to Melbourne and the almost immediate arrival of an e-script for the brand that the pharmacy did have. Technology is a wonderful thing!