MALLACOOTA TO PAMBULA BEACH

                DISASTER STRIKES!

        THE SPINNAKER EXPLODES?

This is the kind of overblown, misleading headline popularised by newspapers owned by Mr Rupert Murdoch. It contains a grain of truth but its primary purpose is not to inform the reader of the facts.  It is to sell newspapers thereby making money for Mr Murdoch. It is in this way (together with pictures of bare-breasted girls on page 3), that Rupert Murdoch has "commodified" the news.  (In fact, the term "commodified"is probably now passé, having been replaced by the less euphemistic "monetised".) 

The truth is that the Spinnaker developed an electrical fault - apparently as a result of poor workmanship in its construction (not of merchantable quality, the Prop hears you say) which resulted in the Prop and his wife being without electrical power in Mallacoota.  

An alternative explanation is that the patrons of the Mallacoota Hotel, incensed by the revelations contained in the Prop's previous article, pronounced some kind of hex or fatwa on the Prop and his possessions (windcheater excluded).

Whatever the true explanation may be, the Prop had to have both arms and a leg amputated in order to pay an electrical contractor to partially fix the problem.  The Prop should have realised there would be trouble when the sparky rolled up in a van with the name "Shylock & Sons - Electrical Contractors - Mastercard, Visa & Flesh acceped"

Lots of trees between Mallacotta and Pambula.  Also quite a lot of hills - both up and down.  Strange to see log trucks laden with logs, going back and forth - reminded the Prop of Tasmania a few years back.

          Pulchitudinous Pambula

Arrived at Pambula Beach at about 1430 hours.  Booked in to the "Pambula Beach Discovery Park" which, at the peak of the season, packs 'em in like sardines.  Today, in the middle of winter, there is a little more room but this is still high density living - complete with kangaroos (who apprently don't pay site fees).  The prop has been told not to feed or befriend the kangaroos as they may become aggressive.  Reminds me a bit of how things were in France with the locals! 

 

  A long time park resident. Tame but strangely aggressive if approached. 

Cheek by wizened jowl among the grey nomads at Pambula. It's just like Florida without the peninsula..... or the Jewish widows.