We woke early to the sound of Perth suburbanites leaving early for work, cars starting & garage doors opening & closing, cars driving slowly past us.  After Craig & Denise left we took the opportunity to wash the car on the front lawn & give it a wipe over inside to try & remove a little bit more of the red dust.  The weather was lovely with the warm sun just right for car washing & all our washing too.  We spent a couple of hours on the car then made ourselves a spot of lunch.  Denise & Craig have such a lovely big house, I felt lost in it after 2 ½ months in our tiny Karavan.  It was lovely to have a nice shower in a bathroom (not a community one) wash in a washing machine & wander around the garden & talk to the dog & bird.

Denise took flex leave & took us on a short drive around Shoalwater then to Rockingham Beach.  We had a look at the causeway to the naval base then a lovely walk on the beach & out on one of the wharves, built especially as a fishing/walking wharf.  We walked over a few boat ramps & on the way back Tereza gave herself a nasty scrape up the shin when a rock moved under her feet, not on the huge rocks, cliff tops or wobbly stepping stones crossing rivers/creeks but on almost flat ground. We also came across a blue tongue lizard on the sand near the end of the wharf.

We hurried back so that we could walk the two blocks to primary school & pick Mel up & walk back home with her. It was a real treat for all of us.  The school is so new & modern, it really does look good.  Denise made a pan pizza for dinner, mixed all of the base ingredients in a non-stick pan, then added the filling & cooked it on the cooktop with the lid on.   Tereza & I have never seen pizza cooked this way & it tasted really good.  We washed it down with a glass of Wolf Blass Merlot (red of course).

Denise & Craig then drove us out to the naval base where Craig took us in to have a look at the Senior Sailor’s Mess.  It is really a big, very nice area to eat, drink & relax in.  As we drove around the base we saw hundreds of Tammar Wallabies that live on Garden Island & are protected from predators.  The biggest threat to them is being killed by the cars of the thousands of people that drive to work on the island every day (5,000 people work there).  There were a couple of naval ships & a submarine tied up at the docks.

Back home we chatted for a while & enjoyed a Wolf Blass Muscato before retiring a little bit earlier than last night.  It was a really nice feel day.