After the comparatively frenetic day that was yesterday (really? how frenetic can life on a houseboat ever be?), today has been one of sheer laziness - eating, dozing, catching up with the world, more eating, more dozing… you get the picture!
Anthony reminded me that "time you enjoy wasting is never wasted time" - a timely and self serving justification for today if ever I heard one. Life on a houseboat seems, with its slow, graceful movement, to slow everything else down too. The spot we have moored in is very quiet, save for the occasional passing of a ski boat or jet ski. Two other houseboats have glided majestically by and one very compact paddle steamer snuck past almost unnoticed. The only other punctuations to the day have been the organisation of food and drink - a high priority on our agenda!
In a rather pathetic effort to 'do' something fruitful, I wandered along a dirt track nearby and took photos, wondering at the time just how many variations of beautiful river photos I can manage to insert into this blog before they wear thin. For everywhere along this amazing waterway there are gorgeous vistas, just begging to be photographed. Sadly I am not terribly proficient and owe any vestige of decent photography to the dumb luck which led me to buy my Fujifilm Finepix S. It was bought in a hurry one Thursday night, my previous camera (like the several before it) having met its demise at the hands of one of my school students, this one dropped in the sand, the shutter cover never to work again. In any event, I am very pleased with the new camera - for a point and shoot machine, it takes great photos and makes up for my decided lack of skill.
I guess, having now written this post, uploaded the photos and checked my email accounts, it is probably time for a cup of tea….. or maybe a nap?
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