Hone Sweet Home...
Unit 4 will be home for
the next couple of weeks until out things arrive by sea. It’s right on the
water; just lovely to sit out on the balcony and watch the little boats go by.
Even better with a nice cold drink in your hand! The room has a big ceiling fan, and
air-conditioning which makes sleeping much easier. Just inside the door is the
bathroom/ kitchenette. With a tiny fridge and coffee making things. The unit
has a single and double bed. A decent sized TV that can be hidden away inside a
cupboard and a small cane lounge suit. The floor is pale ceramic tile and the
walls and ceiling are pale wood paneling.
This week has just sped
by- at times. The Man went to work on Tuesday and I just pottered about the
Resort, dipped in the pool. It is quite hot but not as bad as we were expecting
it to be. We’ve settled into a sort of
routine, when The Man gets home we go for a swim in the saltwater pool, followed
by a shower and then over to the restaurant for tea.
Everything takes four
times as long to get as at home, even simple things like a toasted sandwich.
Breakfast is much easier though; it’s help yourself to fruit, cereal, and toast.
The tiny bananas are very sweet and the watermelon is wonderful. At breakfast
we’re often visited by a very large hornbill, and a white sulfur crested
cockatoo. They both steel food!
The other morning a young Asian couple who were sitting near
us were startled out of their chairs by the hornbills clumsy arrival at
their table to help itself to a slice of toast. These birds are very clumsy on the ground
and jump about instead of walking, They don’t fly very gracefully either and
you can hear their wingbeat for quite a distance. The Hornbill’s redeeming
features are their elegant long eyelashes and electric blue eyeshadow
The path from our unit to
the restaurant winds past the other units. Then the path divides, straight on
to the pool or right to the restaurant and office. There are two cages built
around the trunks of huge trees on the way to the office. Inside one is a small
flock of huge blue ‘chickens’, wearing delicate feathered crests. They are the
world's largest pigeon. During the day they are let out to scratch and fossic
about the resort grounds. They share their cage with a couple of cockatoos. In
the other cage are two fluffy long tailed animals about the size of a very
large cat. These are native possums or Cuscus,
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