Monday, 27 April 2015

raising the roof


Di and Rory's new house at Cape Douglas is progressing remarkably well - minor delays like beams fractionally short and the internal lift arriving from Brisbane with some breakages haven't slowed things down.


The roof is on and one cold Friday evening we gathered at dusk for the Topping Out ceremony.
Rory shinned up the scaffolding and attached a tree to the gable - that will bring good luck to all who work and sail in her.



 
On the fishing side of things, David has decided to adopt Judith's suggestion of using an ironing board on the beach to clean his fish on.
 
 
and we found one of Cape Douglas's rare shells, the purple
Janthina (Violetta) globosa
- well that's what Google says it is.

Gorgeous isn't it!