A cloudy, rainy day at the beach

Well, I guess you can't win them all. It was rainy this morning and cloudy this afternoon. I was supposed to be checked out of the hotel at noon (Jill is coming to get me in about a half hour for dinner and to drop me off at the airport to head to Sydney) but because of the weather, the resort people loaned me an umbrella and let me stay until 5:00. I love the Aussies! Photos of my walk into town are attached in this post and the one that will come after it.

Sunset on the bay and the Sunshine Coast

One last photo from Hervey Bay of sunset last night. Early this morning I climbed back on the bus and returned to the Sunshine Coast. Jill Fisher of the Standby Response team picked me up and took me out inland where she lives. The hilly scenes are from where she lives. The overlook goes out to the ocean where I am tonight. The yellow flowers are Japanese sunflowers which are not native to Australia but are everywhere and very cool. That's her cow Poppy who didn't want to come to her at first because Jill didn't feed Poppy this morning and Poppy was upset. In one photo, Poppy is begging for more grain from Jill. The last photo is of the pool at the Seacove Resort where I am tonight. It's only 6:30 but it feels like midnight. I'm going to try and stay up to watch the Eurovision Song Contest which I first saw in Sweden several years ago. A real treat!