29/05/2022 I want to use the Slippery Slide

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The common area upstairs in the Ramsgate Hotel provided comfortable chairs, tea and coffee facilities, and access to the verandah with ocean views. It was very nice but I should have twigged that all was not silent in paradise when I discovered a large jar of single use earplugs, provided free for patrons to use as they saw fit.  Suffice to say that a grand old pub on the beachfront on a Saturday night was not the quietest of places and we partook of the downstairs music last night whether we wanted to or not

Sunday morning, on the other hand, was very quiet indeed. The revellers had all gone home and a single person wandered down the street, collecting cans from the gutter. The sea was quiet and still in what the BoM informed us was the calm before the storm.

Peaceful sea from the Ramsgate Hotel verandah.


Bad weather is coming.
Morning sunlight on the upper verandah  of the Ramsgate Hotel.
 
On our way out of town we popped in to St Kilda beach and found the best playground in Australia.  We made plans to come back on a day when there weren't so many children around so that we could try out the slippery slides ourselves. 
 
Port Adelaide from across the water.

The pirate ship playground complete with mid-deck cannons  and  lower deck which was subject to inundation at high tide.  There were no children around so we played on this one.

The St Kilda pier.

The maze and big playground.  I didn't take a photo of the giant flying fox, the ropes course, and the castle.

The weather stayed fine and sunny despite Roger's phone regularly pinging with weather alerts: 'Stay inside and shelter!'  'Put cars under cover!' 'Pick up free sandbags from the SES!' '40mm forecast over two days!'

We found a sand bag dispensary!  

Clouds rolled in like clockwork at 5pm, and we barely had time to settle into our cabin at the Tanunda Caravan Park and go for a quick walk up the main street...

We found the important places.

...before the rain started and was still going strong when we went to bed. Although even the rain couldn't drown out the discontented muttering of the little Corellas, who were very put out by the weather and wanted everyone to know about it.



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