After a good sleep and a great breakfast it was time to do a bit more shopping before heading off to the Indoroopilly Golf course. For the first time in over a year I was on a golf course and hitting the ball acceptably, not well but acceptable. We did 9 holes using a buggy and I survived without losing a ball or my temper so that was good.
The evening was spent at the posh CBD restaurant "URBANE" where we celebrated the end of university for my godson with his parents, his girlfriend, his elder brother and me. Super meal and very good wines.
Saturday morning was back to the airport as my host was off to London and I was off to Darwin. The flight was with the awful Jetstar with no legroom, no free service and a long delay due to an engineer leaving "something" on the plane. I assumed a tool or a part (or another engineer!) but it was probably a piece of paper but it took 3 of them to find it and then as a delayed flight we had the lowest priority to get back into the take-off queue. Still we eventually got away and survived the trip to Darwin where the weather was warm and humid and I was met by my hostess. Sadly her husband had been called away on business to help out at a conservation reserve and so I will not be seeing him this trip. especially sad as we always played golf together in the past and I thought I might be back in the swing after all this time and Chris would be my partner of choice for the "come-back" at Gardens Links, Darwin. Sad also that another pair of friends called to say they were not in town as they were staying on in Chile to extend their holiday so we would not cross after all.
Still ..........next time.
So back in Darwin and the wet season is almost here too - still really the "build-up" with the humidity and the storms but not yet the cooling rain. However one morning it did rain and that was great; light rain that was very steday for hours.
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