Obviously an immigrant from Great Britain! The reason I’ve used the alternative form of the name instead of Pixie is that this is a rather ugly creature, more in keeping with pre Victorian pixies which were not cute little creatures in green clothes with pointy ears as we often see them in pictures.
We are at the Hideaway Caravan Park south of Mandurah for a couple of nights. It took us ages to pack for this trip because I took so much out of the Sherwood and stored it in the house because of the heat, then we had a couple of jobs done at Ken Peachey just before leaving so took out even more stuff. One job was to put in a new power point for the kitchen, another to change the sacrifical anode in our hot water system and we also had the solar panels cleaned. With the dry weather solar panels are not getting natural cleaning.
We are not really used to being surrounded by other campers. Of course, as it’s the school holidays there are lots of families with young children. But, we chose this spot for the location on the estury, hoping for lots of birdlife. There is certainly some birdlife, though not as much as we had hoped.
Our spot, despite being one row back, has a view of the estury, especially when we are inside and a bit more elevated. The toilets and showers get very dirty when there are lots of people at a caravan park, especially the women’s when there are teenage girls about. So we are mostly using our own facilities, especially for showers/washes.
We have nine nights away on this trip. We have to be back for three choir rehearsals before going to the Fremantle Songfest in a couple of weekends time. Stephen has mapped out an itinerary, and unlike our usual trips, we may spend most nights on powered sites at caravan parks. This is due to choosing locations near things we want to see.
When we arrived my devices jumped onto a Starlink network that wasn’t password protected. Very foolish as I could access their dish for some functions through the app.
We set up our own Starlink this morning, we have the new flat design with a cord that plugs in using RJ45 plugs, so quick and easy compared with our other setup. We were online within five minutes of setting up. I had checked other Starlinks for the orientation to use and didn’t need to do any adjusting. The flat design without motors means that you may have to make adjustments by moving the dish around. There is a guide in the app which gives real time feedback. But, it was nice to not have to worry about doing any adjusting.
We are not sure of our plans today. We may be in for a hot afternoon as the weather is not predicted to cool down a bit until tomorrow. It was hot yesterday afternoon and although we used the air conditioning for short periods, we mostly sat outside where there was a slight cooling breeze. Fortunately, although it was completely still overnight the temperature dropped enough for comfortable sleeping. We had the windows wide open and the fan helped move the cool air around.
Stephen woke up at 6.00 a.m. this morning. He was able to dress and leave the Sherwood without walking me. When I woke up to the alarm at 6.30 am he was just back. I quickly dressed and went down to the water for photos. The alarm is set for 6.00 am tomorrow morning so that I will be able to photograph the pre dawn light.