A sun[ny] day

Sunday started as always, a sleep in until about 7am and breakfast in our alfresco area, (the nights/early mornings are cooling dramatically now so there won't be too many more of those soon, for a while at least.) My girl left me to clean up and went off to get prepared, showered and dressed for the day.

Today was all about her and I was just the driver. (Essentially)

To put you in the picture, she has a friend who had to face some terrible abuse from her partner and (fortunately) some time ago managed to extricate herself from that situation and has disappeared to a small town in the Yorke Peninsula region called, Wallaroo - a small coastal town sustained through the fishing industry, crop farming (and associated spin-off industries) and tourism (season dependent.) My girl wanted to go and visit with her friend and while I was invited I also wanted to make sure they had time to chat privately about girl things without me there.

We drove the 160 kilometres from home and arrived prior to lunch time. We met her friend for lunch at a place called The Shores Eatery (legit food, trust me!) which overlooks the waters of Spencer Gulf and enjoyed an awesome lunch together chatting about random things until I made an excuse to leave.

I said something about wanting to check out some properties around the place (I wasn't lying about that) and that I'd leave them there to chat while I did; it was way of leaving them alone and I suggested they take their time...knowing they would anyway.

I went for a fairly long walk and took some images of a bulk carrier (ship) loading grain (I'll do a post about that sometime) and walked on the beach as well...then drove on it too.

In the images you can see my truck on the beach and the bulk carrier loading at the wharf in the distance; my other photos are from the wharf itself. I was off for almost three hours when I got a text to pick up the girls and we all went back to our friends' place, dropped her off, had some hugs and headed home.

During the drive back my girl-person thanked me for being a gentleman about giving them privacy by buggering off so they could talk. They chatted, cried and laughed and while I don't know all the details (and those I know are not for the internet), I think our friend is in a much better place despite some ongoing complications and unpleasantness. I didn't mind giving them some space and had a really nice time wandering about by myself, listening to music on my legit new ear pods and enjoying the weather and location. A good day overall for sure.

When I have some time I'll do a post with some of the images I took which, because I'm not a good photographer, are average at best, but I think they look good enough for the interwebs and a Hive post.