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Not France! Bushrangers Bay, close to where we live in Australia.

May Day. Or perhaps mayday!! Time, almost, to fly north once again in our pursuit of an endless summer. This year will be our sixth season on our boat and whilst I wouldn't claim we have the house winterisation down to a fine art we have, at least, learned the value of making a list and realised that it doesn't change greatly from year to year. The final couple of weeks at home are always a bit frantic as we attempt to catch up with jobs, family and friends.A lot of rushing around White Rabbit fashion. ''No time to say Hello, Goodbye! I'm late!"
Speaking of rabbits we have had a plague of them on our property this summer. Those of you in the northern hemisphere may think it charming to look out of the window each morning and see dozens of bunnies cavorting in the grass or perhaps on the verandah looking in. I occasionally, fleetingly, think similarly - the baby ones, of which there are many (so many), are admittedly cute. 'What harm can they do?' I hear you ask. They just eat a bit of grass, some plants, the veggies. Well, there are 3 things that rabbits like doing; eating, procreating and digging. The first 2 I'm fine with. It's the obsession with tunnelling that's the problem. Hundreds of holes all over the place multiplying in line with the procreation. Some small, cleverly concealed holes in long grass are perfect ankle twisters or even leg breakers and others, out in the open, are big enough down which to lose a small child. I have never seen as many as this year and I've no idea of the reason.


There are more welcome visitors to our backyard. Here are a few.
The next blog post should be at the end of May by which time we will be afloat. So it will have something to do with France and boating rather than bunnies and birds.
The plan - yes we have, for once, the vague beginnings of a plan - is to first cruise the Canal de Bourgogne. Let's hope we have more success than our previous attempt on this waterway a couple of years ago when we were defeated by weed and 'technical difficulties'. Don't ask....