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Ron’s cruise around the island
Ron from the ramble turned up at our cabin at 8:30 to tell us he was running another of his cruises around the island at 10:30. It was another perfect day on Lord Howe Island. The cruise was great, the cliffs of Mt Gower were awesome as bounced underneath them. I had some sobering moments…
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Walk to North Bay
We started the day with our usual routine of the shops and then prepared a backpack to walk the trails to the north of the island. We would try and cover all the northern tracks we could. The walk to North Bay meant passing through the Kentia palm forests over the hill from our motel.…
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Ron’s Ramble
We had to do some shopping again in the morning, with the highlights of the morning being the transfer of money between accounts by telephone from a public phone box on the island and our bums being too saw to ride the bikes so we walked everywhere. The afternoon we went on “Ron’s Ramble”. Ron…
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Lovers Beach
The previous night Al and I feel asleep early around 9.30 on the couch. It must have been all the riding, fresh air and generally healthy living. You would think a snooze like that would have us up and at ‘em fairly early, but that wasn’t the case it was after 9.30 by the time…
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Feels like growing up in the 50’s
We finally managed to drag ourselves out of bed around 8.30 and after breakfast we headed into the shop to buy the necessary for our evening meal. While we were standing at the counter in the shop the power went off. This meant we had to leave our veggie shopping until later, the weighing machine…