Keswick Island
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Thu 26 May 2016 22:57
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Keswick
Island
 Not unique but not oft seen, the sign telling yachties to stay clear of the
runway.
 A massive fish ball as we pulled up the the boat
ramp.
  Bear sorted Baby Beez and I read the map, to the shop.
  It is rare to cross a
runway and ‘Beware of Planes
Landing’.
 Cannot argue with
the treasured island. We walked a little way up the hill and
found an information board complete with a map of the island and four incredible
views. Keswick Island is home to about ninety six people. Deliveries are via a
freighter flight once a fortnight. One resident has his own plane and will
always bring anything urgent over on the short flight from Mackay. Boats,
visiting yachts and a little flat bed barge are also used.
 View from Langton Point over Egremont Passage (between Keswick and St.
Bees).
 Singapore
Bay.
 Arthur
Bay.
 Langton Point Look
Out.
 The shop was closed and there was no signal coming from our
dongle. We were considering finding Whale Cottage, just then Nathan pulled up on
his golf buggy, telling him we needed a signal to check on the runaway
Passports. He loaded us on the back of his steed and dropped us at the
roundabout at the top of the hill.
 The view from here was to Mackay on the
mainland and the dongle flashed into life. Very comical – there we were
with a great view, sitting back to back on the grass verge, heads in the
internet. Bear typed in the tracking number of our Passports. Our furry little
friend at the embassy had emailed, telling me she had sent our much loved
documents on the 17th, hence my worrying as its now the 26th. Bear whooped then
reported the heavenly news, they went in the system on
the 24th and they were delivered yesterday. Yeeha. Such a relief,
colour me happy.
 A
couple who have lived here for three years stopped for a chat. The man who mowed
the lawn next to the runway stopped for a yarn and Nathan shot by a couple of
times waving each time. Above us a stunning house ‘for
sale’. Time to bimble down the hill.
 Beez Neez looking pretty special.
 Further down the hill
we could see the girl with her buddies.
 Bear
with St. Bees behind him.
 Back in Baby
Beez, we looked over toward St. Bees. Nathan had
told us that the trees at the top are home to three hundred or so koala bears.
One of the biggest, healthy gangs in the world, chance of seeing one ???
slim.
ALL IN ALL A CORNER
OF LOVELINESS
A PARSEY SET-UP FOR WEALTHY
PEOPLE |