Aye, Aye, Captain!

This was taken on crisp winter morning out on the passage at Caloundra...Steven and I were on holidays recently at the ol' penthouse and on our second last day up the coast it was beautiful and sunny, and quite warm for a winters day so we decided to call up Poppa to come meet us the next day for some boating! Unfortunately there was only one warm day in winter this year and it was not the day we went boating.

An 8am start down at the boat ramp got us knee deep in freezing cold water, shivering in the crisp wind wondering what we were doing...but we had all gone to too much effort to get up and going we couldn't very well turn on the plans. We jumped in the boat and powered down the passage, wind in the face, getting wet and feeling miserable...ah, family bonding! Finally once we felt we'd gone far enough we stopped somewhere on Bribie Is for shelter and morning tea treats, but froze our legs off in the cold wind!

After our brief pitstop, we turned back...and would you believe it, in 5 minutes the weather had fined up and it was a beautiful ride (it also possibly had something to do with the fact that it was much later than 8am by this point)! The return trip was great, we cruised by the waterfront houses, Steven had a drive and Poppa tested the accuracy of the fish finder's depth indicator by cruising along the sandbanks...love technology and the Walton curiosity - like father like son (I'm sure I've been in similar boating experiments before)!

We had a great morning, thank you Poppa!