It was hot today, every bit the 40 degrees that we had been
expecting since the weekend, but a few degrees lower than some of the other
areas mentioned on the weather report, like Lajamanu, where 42 was the maximum, and their next 5 days are likely
to be 40 or more.
I thoroughly enjoyed my first swim of the season. The water
was cool, but not cold, and it was nice to get into the rhythm of a few (short)
laps of freestyle and backstroke. I hung
out some washing and by the time I had had a shower and cooked dinner, the
washing was nearly dry. The cool change
had arrived and I sat outside eating dinner in the gentle breeze, which
gusted from time to time, causing a branch to scrape along the fence or a seed
to blow off its tree and roll along the channels in the corrugated roof of my
awning. Above ANZAC Hill the kites (birds)
were circling, playing on the thermals - a magnificent flock of over forty
birds.
Gradually the stars came out and I wanted to sit there all
night. If I owned the statutory swag of
true Centralians, I just may have been tempted to sleep out under the stars in
the cool breeze. To be honest it’s not exactly
cool – according to my app, it was 32.1 at 6pm and is currently around 30 degrees. It’s all relative, of course, as 30 is
considerably cooler than 40.
As I sit listening to Henri Salvador’s cool jazz Chambre Avec Vue – I am at risk of falling
sleep before I finish this entry.
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