In Colac again

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First two photos are from the earlier weekend in Colac - taken in the garden of a new friend, Ruth. We drove to Colac yesterday afternoon and gave a talk/music about Fiji to about thirty-five older people at one of the retirement villages there. Lovely older people to talk with. We stayed in the Lake Colac Caravan Park overlooking the lake and it was very comfortable. This morning Peceli led the Good Friday service at St Andrews then we walked with several hundred people on the Stations of the Cross, an ecumenical walk through the Botanical Gardens. Once surprise at the caravan park, when I was saying, it's good not to have to worry about looking after the rabbit and guinea pig, then I looked out of the window of our cabin, and lo and behold, there were three rabbits and a guinea pig belonging to a man in the neighbouring caravan! We had meals with some of the parish women which was very kind of them. We were back in Geelong by 4 p.m. when there was a huge torrential rainstorm, tropical, and I just got in my daughter-in-law's washing just in time!

Colac caravan park

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Peceli and I spent two nights at the Colac Caravan Park beside Lake Colac and our small house was fine and was an excellent place to stay as Peceli helped the local Uniting Church with pastoral visits and in leading worship. The people of Colac have been very warm, friendly and affirming of Peceli's ministry in retirement. We heard many stories and each person we met had so much to tell about their life. Also we had a chance to walk along the lakeside in the early morning and later I made a brief visit to the botanical garden next door. Formal and informal landscapes of course. Australian landscapes are often messy and scribbly and trees bent every which way. I had a go at drawing the ducks at the caravan park but I've made some of them look a bit dodgy!