Sometimes rain, sometimes sun

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On the way to Donation in Kind depot this morning the sea was bright silver from the sunlight but returning home two hours later it was dull as ditchwater. However I took a few photos at Eastern Beach of boats and of bollards near the yacht club while Peceli bought a kilo of mussels from one of the boats. Very tasty soup with chillies and onions and left-over lovo dalo. Also, I've been making a few extra pictures from the flower photos from the weekend.

Geelong Eastern Beach

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We went to a New Year's Eve party at a beautiful home above Eastern Beach. It was a fundraising party for assisting the building of a Methodist church somewhere between Lautoka and Nadi so I expect they raised $500 so far. It was about 42 degrees so went out on the balcony for a couple of hours.


This morning we went for a swim at Eastern Beach about 10a.m. It was still over 30 degrees but heading for a change, thank goodness. As we drove through Eastern Gardens the sea had peculiar stripes on it. Not green as I depicted it but dark blue and light blue. Not kelp, not sandbars, just strange stripes.

Four bus-loads of Cook Islanders arrived and set up camp next to us with tents, eskies of food, large mats. Each bus had a trailer for the food! They had come from Melbourne from their Chadstone Community church. A group os Samoans were singing behind us. It really felt like it was a Pacific New Year party!

Pictures of Eastern Beach continued

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Here are some variations based on the drawings/paintings I did at Eastern Beach on Friday and one of a house in Watsons Rd - some cropping, editing with different colours, textures, lines.