Finished the painting of the main bedroom at the house, to get an idea of what it would look like with the chosen wall and trim colours. Decided that we were generally happy with the overall effect, but that maybe we should get some professional advice about the painting of the rest of the interior, especially the ground floor where many of the walls and doors have been painted to look like woodgrain. Much of this is now peeling and chipping and trying to retain that appearance may be a costly option (if you can even find someone who does woodgrain painting these days). Perhaps we should just go with the more contemporary colours throughout. An additional problem is that much of the peeling paint on the ground floor has been identified as a "lead paint" problem area in the technical surveys.

We finally finished our exam marking and sent the results off to Monash, in time for us to start cruising seriously in the next few days. In the afternoon, we went down to the Tarn to see the annual opening of Moissac Plage and the opening of the new pontoons. Lots of Mairie people in attendance. Iain & Kaz managed to get quite a few boats to go down and moor at the new pontoons so that they looked popular.  

All went well, except for the water-skiing boats that went past the pontoons at quite high speeds, causing very large waves. Those boats moored parallel to the path of the speedboats rocked quite violently - someone forgot to take account of this little detail!

I also took the opportunity to take a walk and get a photo of a section of Moissac near the Pont Napoleon that featured in the Children of Moissac photo exhibition. If shows that nothing much has changed in Moissac in this area in the past 70 years, apart from the size and number of trees, and the number of cars.

During the afternoon, we met up with Maurice and Barbara Chapman on the boat "Kookaburra", who are sugarcane-growers from Bundaberg. We spent a very enjoyable evening chatting with them after the pontoon opening and learning of their life as cane-growers. After the fireworks display, we wandered back to Kanumbra in the warm evening air.