We had 9am games reserved at the Croquet club. A right warm welcome we were given by all the £10 Pommes there. We both did ok, but I did not find a club mallet to allow me to play 'capoeira' and trying a TPO with a brick on a string was one step too far. Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines. This was the case today at noon.

At the foot of this massive Black Apple the roots of the Strangler Fig have grown down into the earth and the tree will eventually not be very well as it will not get nutrients and water any more. We walked the rain forest canopy trail hearing very little, seeing no animals but spotted one gap year Korean student and two ants.

Valet service for Mazzy2 badly needed after trip to beach involving actually going into the sea. Wonderful surf and not at all cold. However now substantial sand transportation is in progress. We continued on our way looking for a beach that would be 'just the right sort of sandy sheltered rocky bay with a cafe'. While so doing, we came across a ferry which we decided to take Mazzy2 on. This cost nothing! So now we are driving around somewhere else without any beaches. Ooops, it is 50k to the next ferry to get home, we have to turn around and get the same one back. This of course costs $8. Ferry operators were not born yesterday. But Mazzy2 enjoyed cooling off on the river for a while.

Examples of things living in a warm, stagnant pond can be found near our farmhouse. Water-boatmen being the easiest to spot. Despite spending most of their lives underwater they don’t have gills, so need to regularly surface for air. Some of the others I may be able to identify by referencing how my rash develops.

Swimming here is only for the locals. At least you can get some fresh home grown salad. But I should not jest about this place, it is in many ways very like the bilabong we found last year that gave us such pleasure. Replace broken camper-vans with wooden houses. Singing round the campfire with Netflix and having to make do with brown water with a fridge full of artesian spring water. This just in: Mazzy2 has been found covered in dew and with hundreds of mosquitoes stuck by their wings to the fine paintwork and windows. Mazzy2 now renamed, Mozzy.