We went to a cafe on the waterfront. Warren suggested that we take a walk out the jetty but with the door being almost wrenched from our hands as we left, and the rain was coming down we went for a drive instead. Driving along the coast road, we called in here.
Getting fifty metres down the track, the heavens opened again and it was cold! we headed back to the car and went out to Adam Lindsay Gordon's cottage.
With a closed sign on it.
Using the GPS, we found there was a martine museum in town.
A mural on a building in the main street, too cold and wet to find out more.
This was one of the exhibits just inside the door, an outdoor wooden dunny complete with a red back spider on the seat.
I have been to many museum but this one was very different, it had small alcoves featuring one aspect of the area. It has had many and varied industries such as soap making, tanning, beer making, boat making and of course cray fishing/lobster catching.
One exhibit was on rabbits and their fur and making akrubra hats
In amongst these was an area dedicated to churches in the district and this beautiful pipe organ, it is the small I have ever seen, not that I am any sort of expert but it was stunning. There was also the damn, I cant think of the word but where the minister delivers his sermon from, lectern? and a church pew.
As someone walked into this alcove, the Lord's Prayer played softly. In many of the alcove, there was music or speeches about the display.
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