Only 20 people allowed at any one time but this is not a big problem for a smallish bridge club. Notice the big bottle of hand sanitiser. Everyone was asked to carry their own bidding boxes from table to table and to use the sanitiser at each table before play. Geraldton plays three times a week and they opened for two sessions to start with and are moving to a third session this week. We will continue with online bridge which is still enjoyable in its own way but it was also very nice to face real people across the table once again :-)
The library in town is also now open but people have to sign in and are limited to a 30 minute visit. Cafes and restaurants are slowly opening their doors. Schools have gone back but playgrounds are still off limits, until next week. The inconsistencies between various restrictions are hard to fathom. For example the library is open but the visitors' centre is not. And yet, the Premier is urging West Australians to holiday in WA. But we understand the caravans leaving Perth for the north are filling up the roads. Hopefully, if we wait to leave Geraldton until the end of June we will miss some of the big rush.
Sand dunes along the coast between Geraldton and Cape Burney where Andrew went for a walk.
Our social life has burgeoned these last few weeks. Not only has the bridge club opened but we had visitors staying a few days too. We met Marienne and Robert from The Netherlands on our recent trip to Dongara. They too have been captives of the corona lock down and are only now able to continue with their planned WA trip. They finally left Dongara after some months there and they visited us on the way to the north.
Here we are having a game of rummy kub. Not as good as bridge but more people play that and it provides a very nice few hours of entertainment.
Our two motor homes lined up outside 20 Glass Crescent. We may meet up with them somewhere up the northern parts of WA as we both continue our trip. We set off later this week with a farewell to Geraldton.
Our lovely neighbours at 23 Glass Street, Ailsa and Chris. They are the ones who gave us the two wonderful crayfish some weeks ago. Then they had us for a farewell to Geraldton dinner at their house. Chris is, like me, a continuous joke teller and we had a great evening with them. And Ailsa is a wonderful cook and hostess. We seem to be lucky with neighbours who are both hospitable and good cooks. Thinking of you Desiree and Todd back across the road at Ebden Street :-)
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