Woohoo!, woohoo!, my new Subaru!!

It was such a wet day here in Willunga this morning and nothing could be done in the garden as we had planned. So after lunch we thought to give our new Subaru XV a real try out by driving to Cape Jervis via Yankalilla , Normanville, Delamere and Rapid bay. It was pretty exciting to have all the bells and whistles to observe while going along and air conditioning keeping us at a constant comfortable temperature. Plenty of power too, it leaped up hills, cornered fabulously and I am thrilled to bits.
We arrived at Cape Jervis just as the ferry was steaming towards the landing.The cloud formations were very impressive and Kangaroo Island was a bit hazy in the distance.It is amazing

how such a large ferry can manouver in such a small space. Although the sea did not appear too rough, the ferry was certainly rolling.having watched it unload we decided on the way back to call in at Wirrina, a holiday resort Brian once had shares in. It is lovely country there but who would want to live there? We drove to the Marina which is looking pretty sad. There were quite a few yachts moored there but all the buildings are empty and up for sale.

The cloud formations were amazing this afternoon, but strangely we hardly had any rain on our travels. We thought to get a coffee at Normanville beach kiosk but that sadly was closed.

I took a photo of the happy fish having a conversation with the lamp post. This is new since we were there a few months ago now.
In the 1930ies Harry used to ride his big black horse from Yankalilla where he lived, to Normanville to attend the dances they put on for the young people.

I have taken yet another photo of the Tawny Frogmouth on the vine which I have started to prune on the days they are not there. This one was here again this morning and so I couldn't prune the vine for fear of upsetting them. This one was out of the rain but the other two sit at the far end and one of them was in the rain. You feel like picking it up and putting it under shelter out of the rain, but that would not work.