Lunch with Piers

0630 position 33-38S 151-17E. On a mooring off of Zappa and Marie's house, Scotland Island, Broken Bay, New South Wales, Australia

At noon yesterday we all piled onto Zappa's outboard motor boat and headed north up Broken Bay to Piers and Suzanne's home for "lunch". Most of the west side of Broken Bay is park land except for a few clusters of homes along the shoreline. Piers and Suzanne live in one of those clusters in Towlers Bay, an estuary feeding into Broken Bay about a mile north of Scotland Island. Their home is nestled in the trees fifty feet or so above the Bay and the view looks out on Piers' thirty foot sailboat which is on a mooring out front.

It has been pretty cold here, and a fire was roaring in their fireplace when we arrived. We started with Van Diemen cocktails, expertly made by Piers, in front of the fire. He was, after all, a co-conspirator in the development of the recipe. We moved on to red wine when we sat down for a roast beef lunch. Somehow lunch took all afternoon, and it was starting to get dark by the time we got up from the table and attempted to leave. There was a lot of laughing, and a good time was had by all.

Marie was the soberest among us so she got to drive the boat. She dropped Michael, Rob and I off on Van Diemen on the way home.

There was a movie on my computer called "Cheerleader Camp", and we have been waiting for the right time to enjoy its sophmoric humor. Last night seemed like the appropriate time. I don't believe it won any academy awards.

Rob and I went for coffee with Piers again this morning. That's three mornings in a row, but this was likely the last time. Piers is heading in to his home in the city this afternoon and we may not see him again before we depart Broken Bay.

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