A latish breakfast followed by a period of R & R and then we started sorting out our stuff for leaving the house.
Later in the afternoon, we went out on to the back lawn to practice putting up the new Colman Geo 5 tent as we needed to check it is all there and how to put it up.
As usual the description or instructions of how to erect the tent are pretty much gibberish but as we have quite some years of erecting tents it was not too difficult to work it out. We took it slowly so as to check everything and pretty much erected it apart from putting the last few pegs in. It’s a very nice tent indeed and simple to put up and we guess after a little practise we should be able to do it in about twenty minutes or so.
There is a built in groundsheet and also very fine mesh for the biting bugs called ‘no-see-ums’, which is of course an Australasian word for those little blighters that you cannot see as they are very small but bite like a bloody rabid crocodile in heat.
So overall what with fiddling about and repacking etc it took us under two hours to fully understand how it all works.
Later in the afternoon Mary (Brian and Sheila’s friends from across the road) invited us to dinner on Saturday night but regretfully we had to reject as we leave Saturday morning for the South.
As the sun came down over the hills and the sunset got brighter we ate a nice chicken salad for tea and then watched some TV. Not an exiting day but we are both pleased with our choice of tent. We also have a little gas stove and table, but most of the good sites have a proper kitchen which campers can use complete with cookers, refrigerators etc, etc.
