{"id":3456,"date":"2020-12-29T04:27:41","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T04:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/suewoolfe.com.au\/pages\/?p=3456"},"modified":"2021-01-03T04:51:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-03T04:51:55","slug":"day-279","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/suewoolfe.com.au\/pages\/day-279\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 279"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Written 29 December, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This morning in my nightie, \u00a0I saw a message from Dee: <em>Want to go up the creek and see if they&#8217;re ok?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t resist an adventure. K saw me throwing on clothes and insisted on packing me a care package in case we get stuck: a thermos of tea, dates, biscuits, and GG&#8217;s last banana. He stole it back when she was looking the other way, and waved us off, despite the rain pelting down.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The mouth of the creek\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/grpYecfa_0w?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A misty morning but the creek is full of secrets and promises. I always think as we pass of a friend who in her late teens lived on an old deserted far<strong>m <\/strong>here. All that&#8217;s left now is a stone wa<strong>ll <\/strong>behind an avenue of mangroves. According to legends, this used to be highwaymen country. It could still be. But as Dee said, where did they keep their horses?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rain fell hard but I sat on the front to level the boat, in case we ran into shallows. Tripi sat with me, a dear little form of a dog, like a little child.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; color: #555555;\"><em>You know the camping site?\u00a0<\/em>asked Dee<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; color: #555555;\"><em>There&#8217;s a beach.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; color: #555555;\"><i style=\"color: #555555; font-style: normal;\">It&#8217;s high tide, Dee said. In other words,<\/i><i style=\"color: #555555; font-style: normal;\">\u00a0any beach would be invisible.<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; color: #555555;\"><em>I&#8217;ve only been here on high tide. It was there then.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We found the beach, a tiny strip of sand, and their canoes.<\/p>\n<p>I was expecting chaos but they were the only campers still there despite a thunderstorm, feeding children breakfast, competent and happy.<\/p>\n<p>I marvelled that they&#8217;d found their way. When we first came here 20 years ago, it took us months to find it. That&#8217;s why it must&#8217;ve been good for highwaymen, despite the problems with their horses.<\/p>\n<p>On the way home, I remembered that often in teaching I&#8217;d look incompetent , but I always manage fine.<\/p>\n<p>At home, a rare luxury because of all the rain &#8211; a bath half full of warmth.<\/p>\n<p>Dee runs every year a tiny festival in a paddock up north past Taree, and will this year, virus permitting. We had thoughts of joining it but with Gg&#8217;s bad shoulder and the virus, too much is stacked against us. He&#8217;s off tomorrow with Tripi. We&#8217;ll miss them both.<\/p>\n<p>Those two have become essential in our little community. I wish we could&#8217;ve gone. Such fun. But that&#8217;s been this year, your hopes put on hold again and again. You take the blow, grit your teeth and shut up, for the terror and the death rates overseas make your disappointment petty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written 29 December, 2020. &nbsp; This morning in my nightie, \u00a0I saw a message from Dee: Want to go up the creek and see if they&#8217;re ok? I can&#8217;t resist an adventure. 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