In Robe

Well, today did not really go as planned. Originally, we intended to spend the whole day at the beach. But of course, man plans and god laughs. The weather was really nice when we arrived last night, but it turned against us today and was windy and rainy most of the day.

So instead of the beach, we had a lazy morning in our cabin and played with the kid. Eventually we ventured outside and went to the other pub in town for lunch (not the one we went to last night). Originally we intended to walk to the pub, but we ended up just walking a few blocks and deciding it was just not fun with the cold wind. In the end we had the restaurant to ourselves, and picked a table with a water view and settled into a long lunch with a couple of pints to wash it down.

Here are some photos of the ocean being whipped up by the wind. You can see the brilliant turquoise color of the Robe water out beyond the waves - this is on an overcast day, you can imagine what the water looks like on a bright sunny day.


After lunch we bought barbecue supplies and headed back to the cabin. Around late afternoon the skies opened up and it poured with rain for the best part of 3 hours. Some of our neighbors saw some minor flooding around them with 3 to 4 inches of water building up. The rain broke long enough for us to barbecue outside, but we ate inside because it was way too cold outside.

Here is Callum looking out of the cabin door watching rain - easily the most rain he has ever seen.

Here are some other shots of the scenery around Robe.