Then There Were 19...

Hello there

I thought it was time for an update here at the island... Once there were 9 people at Keswick Island... Now there are ~19 including a slew of builders busily working away on new constructions.

We have Ron & Marion Brooks living here again to complete their home just up the road from our place. They used to live where we do, and their new home is coming along nicely now that their builders are hard at it.

Typically, there's never a dull moment here and plenty of socialising going on. In one week alone, we had four parties in five days - mainly due to two birthdays falling in the same week, then a wedding anniversary, state-of-origin football... There's always something to celebrate!

We've had good sunny weather and rainy weather -- which is great for filling up the water tanks... but not as bad as in NSW where we came from! Luckily for us, we moved at the right time and missed the awful weather they've been having.

Fishing! All the builders are nutty about fishing and it's always nice to be given a spare coral trout or mackeral to cook up for dinner! On the weekends, they're always out and about in their tinnies throwing a line in. It's a nice, healthy lifestyle if you ask me.

We went fishing ourselves the other evening and took the tiki torches down to the beach. Brian caught a nice little shark, which Lyn will cook up in her fabulous Bombay curry style. :-) Then James Ashbury pulled up in his boat with his two mates and gave us a beautiful big mackerel to cook up. Talk about spoiled! lol

Here are some photos taken at various time throughout the month of May and June.


Kevin & Loretta Boyle's builders, Steve, Birthday Boy Ben, Glen & Dave.

Steve, Ben & Glen enjoying themselves. From Sydney, it's good to have some NSW supporters here to back us up for the footy! They're good hard working lads with a good sense of humour. It's nice to see city boys getting away from it all for some hard yakka, and to appreciate the simple things in life.

Richie, Steve & Ben at our place one night.

Steve with a little green tree snake (non-poisonous). He looks real comfortable holding that don't you agree? lol


Here's Steve again with a couple of shots of our local geckos. Who has the better eyes? I think Steve wins out there...


The Young Endeavour anchored off the point of St Bees for the evening. It looked beautiful lit up at night. We could see the young people on board participating in lessons through our telescope. When it came around the corner in full sail, you could have sworn it was the first fleet arriving!

Trent, one of Marion & Ron Brooks' builders. Not a small chappie... being 6' 7" tall! At least we can say that we all look up to him. ;-)

David & Carolyn Berk, Dr Chris, Lyn & Hannah at the Keswick Island Guesthouse for sunset drinkies. Brian & Lyn had just spent the night over at St Bees and had a lovely time. It was great to finally meet David & Carolyn and their children. Dr Chris had popped over for the day with his two daughters Sophie and Abbey. They're coming back with Michelle in a couple of weeks for four days, which will be good.

Here's a nice shot of a helicopter taking off right in front of our place.

Trent & Richie, the builders. They often pop in for an after work chat and beer and are very nice lads. Good taste in music too!

A lovely winter sunset with the moon.

Of course we still love living here... Why wouldn't we? lol. ;-)

Take care until next time,

Warmest regards
EvieB