Sea World Adventures

It's been a long wait so far but a good weekend helped to pass the time.

Preston Lodge had a Club day on Saturday which meant training at 10am (for me, 'training' means 'watching'!), then a clear-out of the storage area under the Pennypit stand, then down to The Thorntree to watch the third and final SA v Lions Test on the telly.

The training looked good from where I was standing but the highlight for me was a pod of about 8 dolphins that swam past just about 50 yards offshore. They were jumping and tail standing and everything. Dolphins in the 'Pans - amazing! The world's gone mad.

The clearout of the stand was also a great job well done, so well done to Euan and his band of merry men who helped out.

To top it all off, The Lions won - 9-28! A good performance and a deserved consolation victory.

All in all, the day was a complete success.

We went out for tea - we tried to get into The Rocks at Dunbar. It looks really nice but unfortunately there wasn't a table available until 9pm - a wee bit too late. So we went to The Bayswell Hotel instead. Unfortunately, their bookings were running late too so we got sent upstairs to a dining room, rather than in the nice conservatory. The view was as good as the food though. Lobster for me and grilled sea bass for Liesl.

Sunday morning - down to North Berwick for the rolls and papers but as it was a braw morning, we got a coffee and croissant and sat in one of the seafront car parks.

It's quite busy with people unloading boats and kayaks and filling them with loads of water and provisions. They're going to paddle around the Bass Rock and it'll take them about four hours.

Good luck to them - sounds quite good!

Hope they look out for the dolphins.

Roll on tomorrow - Finding Out Day.

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