Day 24 - 9 June - Loyalty Beach - Seisia - 6 km

Joe had told me about the frogs in the showers.  Of course I couldn't see them because I didn't have my glasses on.  Thought they were insects or dirt on the wall.  Anyway took some photos when I had my shower this morning.  They are tiny.  Would be good on a biscuit with a bit of dill ;-))

Groundhog Day! Although Loyalty Beach is nicer than Seisia Holiday Park there isn't much to do there if you're not fishing. We skipped breakfast and rode back to Seisia.  Lots of wild horses roaming around.  S

at around Simone's shop so we could access the Internet in comfort.

After a while we booked into the campsite and were to set up our tents in front of the Seaview Lodge as we did previously.

 We went down to the wharf and had a look around...again.  Lots of cars packed up ready to go back on the cargo ship.  We were told that 3 of these cars had died trying to make it up the Old Telegraph Track.  Soft...get a Motobecane (that's our bike brand).








While we were down there, a massive barge came in from Cairns with about 4 pre-fabricated houses on board.

We watched them muscle it into the dock and tie up.  Took them ages, but very interesting.

 We then watched them unload.  Very skilled operation moving the modules on the barge with the forklift, backing the semi onto the barge, loading the semi and driving off.

Once they are off, they are stored on the wharf until another semi comes and takes them to where they will be set up.  Part of a government initiative worth millions.  They were shipping about 70 homes to Siesia.  Creating lots of employment.  Plenty of builders, sparkies, plumbers up here all pulling in big bucks.

We were talking to a local, and apparently the allocation process is a bit dodgy.  The mayor (who has been in jail twice) allocates them.  good if your his buddy.

In the afternoon a group of very fit looking blokes arrived, at first we thought they were service personnel. It turned out they were a diverse group including a neurosurgeon, doctor, lawyer, firemen  and others who were going to paddle 7 metre 2 man kayaks to Saibai Island, 3 km from PNG across Torres Strait.  still part of Australia, but closer to PNG.

They seemed to have connected through Adventure Racing which is a hybrid combination of mountain biking, paddling, running and rogaining. We thought they were mad! It made a bit more sense when it was revealed the kayaks had a sail as well as paddles. Even so we were mightily impressed.

We had dinner with Gavin who is a fireman at "Grumpy Pants cafe" the Seisia Kiosk. We call it Grumpy pants because the proprietor is a very anal prickly individual. The food there is pretty good though so we enjoyed our meal with Gavin explaining more about the kayak adventure. 

Early to bed again.