Heatwave

We have had a few days of 40 degrees - the first of this kind of heatwave for a few years, after a couple of wet and cool summers. Some fires near us but nothing too worrying, unlike Victoria. The smoke coloured the sunsets for us for a couple of days.

The heatwave was forecast a good week out so we planned on a few days down the beach and it was gorgeous. The water was freezing cold but it was high thirties in our little beach town which is really hot for us, and only comes from nasty strong westerly winds. For a couple of days each year we think we really must get air-conditioning (like the couple of days each year we think we need better heating there) and this was absolutely one of those times. It's one thing to sleep with the ceiling fan on, another to sleep with no sheets and no clothes, but you know it's really hot when you get a wet towel, wring it out and cover yourself in it while the ceiling fan evaporates the water ... it sends you off to sleep just fine and then you wake up two hours later under a dry towel. That is the kind of hot I do not need in my life.

So we had some excellent swims, drank many iced beverages, read some books and lolled around in sarongs until the cool change came through Saturday afternoon and it dropped fifteen degrees in an hour. And yesterday on the way back up the hill it was misty and 11 degrees ... much nicer. Now all we need is a few days of solid rain.