Damp Sunday

Up with the lark as usual and breakfast from the motel (bagels and pastries) was a good start to the day.

We drove a couple of miles to Rockport with the Sunday paper and bought a coffee and muffin from the only shop in Rockport and sat in the sun. Unfortunately that was the last we saw of the sun as it clouded over and then started to rain steadily for the rest of the day.

There is no mobile phone signal anywhere in this area but very occasionally T Mobile produces a weak signal for a few seconds. Just enough to allow a text from Ruth who is in Oban this weekend. She had just bumped in to June and Alan. How amazing was that!!

Rockport is a tiny place with a nice bay full of sailing boats. It used to be the centre of the lime industry and the remnants of the limekilns can still be seen. However nothing else has come to replace them and it sits quietly next to Camden which seems to have won the tourist industry prize.

We did our best to eek out a rainy day around here. We visited a lovely winery and had some "tastings". Very nice but we realised that we could not carry any bottles on to the plane home so we could not make any purchases.

Dinner tonight was meant to be salad and dessert at a nice restaurant which dad found on the web. He phoned it to check there were spaces and was told to turn up and take a chance. We arrived and put our names on the waiting list and in about 30 minutes our names were called and we sat at our table. It was only when we opened the menus that we realised that it was the wrong restaurant!! Too late to leave by then so we had another fishy tea which was nice but not the plan.

Moving on to Tripp Lake tomorrow via some shopping at Freeport.