Day 112 – Hello Molly

Early start this morning to try and avoid the holiday traffic heading south. The city was a sight, shrouded in San Francisco like fog. Apparently this is quite rare and if we hadn’t have been leaving early would have missed it as the sun soon burned it off.

We headed out of the city on the road Tom and I had driven a few days earlier. The traffic was heavy and progress was slow; it took us a good 4 hours to get to Ulladulla, the main town near Mollymook. Needing refreshment we headed for a cafe. I was introduced to a full on Aussie burger, stuffed with meat, egg and bacon.

The boys had to dash to make a booked round of golf so I went back to rented apartment. I was going to take a walk but the weather had other opinions. I was about to step out the door when heavens opened and thunder and lightning started up. There were a couple of strikes close by, close enough to make me jump.

Needless to say that the weather put pay to the boys round of golf, they only made it to the third hole. With time to kill we watched some cricket, the second test until the weather was good enough to let us play for real in the drive way.

In the evening we headed out to The Returned and Services League or RSL as its known. In England we’d know it as a British Legion but over here they’re much bigger and profitable (mainly due to gambling) clubs. While having a few drinks I was amazed at the variety of ways you can bet. There’s one game called Kino that flashes numbers up Bingo style and entices people to bet a number of ways. We played our own version between us that the boys called Kino madness.

We had to wait for an age to get seated for dinner and after sitting down and choosing our food faced another long queue to order and pay. In the end we got frustrated with all the waiting, over an hour by now, so we raided the salad bar.

Having enough of the RSL we got the courtesy bus to Ulladulla and tried to get into the Marlin. Unfortunately over here you need ID to get in most places and Sandy didn’t have his. With this being the only place to go in town we bought some beer and headed back to the apartment where we ended the night with games of shit head Unfortunately the looser got Drambuie shots; this was mainly Higgsy who ended up pretty wasted.