Welcome to Episode 197 of my podcasts The view from the crow's nest and it is Wednesday the 13th 13th 13th of December 2011, and today marks a very important day because it's our first family day out in at least two months, possibly longer. And conversely, it's my first day out in probably about two months, six weeks, probably, I mean, certainly, there's a supermarket around the corner you can walk there in about four minutes. And that's pretty much the furthest I've been in the law in the last two months and the last time I went there was about a month ago, like, I don't leave the house. Generally, so we had this day out today and it was so bloody enjoyable. I mean everything shut, but we'd been told that there's these beautiful lakes. I see these lakes of Seabury beautiful lakes. So you went down to them and basically it's like a retirement village with these artificial lakes boating lakes, and it's just not very impressive put it that way. So we went down there we drove there. We had two missions one to see the lakes and the second one was to get me in some waterproof shoes. Boots she really needs some outdoor boots, so that we can say go hiking it's not that you know hiking but at least she can walk places that are muddy and wet and it's not going to get her shoes, her feet wet. So we went to these lakes and it and they kind of suck but it was fun we know we drove around and we kind of looked and we're like, yeah, this sucks but nonetheless. And that was basically lunchtime. And then we started to head towards the shopping centre where we might be able to get her shoes because you would have thought buying waterproof shoes would be a fairly easy thing. But it's missions around here. No one sells anything like it. And I saw this sign it was like come out of the retirement village of the boating lake and turn left and off you go. But tell Ryan, it was one mile from the seat one kilometre from the sea, and I just thought you know what let's just go right, see the sea. So we drove down and we drove down this lonely road, and then the sea opened up in front of us. And you can see these tracks where people have driven onto the, you know, into the sand or whatever. And there was this big puddle. And sumana said go fast go fast. So like fine. Let's do this. So I drove fast through this puddle. And I had completely forgotten or not forgotten I didn't realise. Yeah. Okay, I'm like that. I didn't realise that with the windows open the puddle would spray into the car, I just thought physics, it would spray out to the side but apparently not. So spray this puddle into me in his face into my face like dirty. Sandy water into the car, and I was laughing about it until I realised I driven too far onto the sand and I wasn't laughing because I couldn't move the car. And so they were like, ah, and there was not a soul about. And we're on this beach, and we tried to go forward we tried going back and of course all we did is bury the car deeper into the sand. And so, okay well you know or something out blah blah blah. Anyways, it transpired when I transferred some other they were, I don't know, some dude appeared. Eventually, some other dude, and he had a towing cable, and then he was like hey I can pull you out. And there's like a, like, Ah, well, you probably find it under the spare tire, really. So he never knew he had that he never knew how to tow him by and be we found out that there's a panel that you pop out of the back of the car and you can screw the towing bar into that panel. So you know, you learn things every day. So this dude pulled us out which is very good. And by that point the kids would go out of the car they'd, you know, finally got over their agoraphobia and they've got out the four walls and they're on the beach. And this is the middle of January, and it was beautiful sunshine, beautiful blue sky. And, you know, almost, almost t shirt weather for the beach. So the kids started playing, and they were happily playing on thi
