Extremely strong winds overnight

 

Well last night is the second time this week I sleep on the Red Herring and as I've been away prior to that for a week or two, it seems some seagulls are trying to make friends with me. They started squawking as I arrived last night. I'm a little sick, my voice is all croaky and occasionally I'm coughing some kind of boogers out of my lungs, however I'm able to work ok, no fever or headaches, it seems I just need to sleep a few extra hours.

I'm still doing my Saturday morning 500 metres, plus, swims. So I slept very deeply both nights this week on the Red Herring and last night I woke up to pee and the wind was absolutely howling like 20 plus knots, easy. As you can imagine, on a swing mooring, the wind is always blowing into the bow of the boat, making the stern point away from the wind. So I can have the stern window open all night, no matter how hard the wind blows, and the wind won't blow inside. So sometimes I'll just leave a bucket by the stern window to pee into overnight, instead of peeing in the actual toilet. Always nice to have dual options, like two nationalities or whatever.

So I wake up to pee last night and the wind was absolutely gusting furiously, maybe even 25 knots. Crazy. I was a little worried my kayak could be ripped off its two lines and go missing, but because of my illness, I just went back to sleep and slept in til 1020am. So falling asleep like a little after midnight. I just remember that wind was bitching, so strong, same time coz of my croaky voice condition, just too tired. I'm ok during the day, just can't talk real well but nothing is hurting.

I even slept one night in the depot this week which I normally would never do. My legs hanging from the knees over the edge of a two seater sofa all night. The reason for that was I was way too tired to even be able to drive ten minutes that night, again because of having this croaky hoarse throat condition.

Anyway I got the boy from camp, only a ten minutes drive from Mona Vale. Drove him home and put my gardening tools away. Earlier in the week I'd reattempted one of my client's lawns, for the first time in like over half a year, just whipper snipping and blowing (tools) plus grabbing weeds and dry leaves by hand. Those two tools were in my car for a couple of days after that. That lady's lawn is the only lawn I've worked on anywhere in the world with bloodsucking leeches in it. I'm an idiot to put my hand up for it. I've seen lawns all over the world but this is the only one I've seen with leeches.