A quiet day today. The weather's gone off a bit, in that the temperature has dropped to 21 degrees, but it's cloudy and a thunderstorm is forecast. Drove into Bateman's Bay, for a walk along the Clyde river. Interested to see the pelicans have got the day off (see earlier post).

New South Wales car registration plates bear the legend 'NSW - The First State'. Obviously there isn't room to complete the sentence '........To Be Populated Entirely By Criminals'. Mind you, you didn't have to do much to get deported in those days; in the 1750s a boy of 9 was hanged in England for stealing an apple. Quite right too, the little bastard. Hang some sense into 'em!