Mystery solved? Not quite

The boys woke early, and stayed awake. Played quietly but still loud enough to disturb their aunt; mostly by heavy feet on the floor over the room where J sleeps. They had requested a picnic today. The morning rapidly deteriorated until heavy rain set in.

The rain abruptly stopped about 1130. We put the makings of a picnic into a chilly bin (what the Australians know as an Esky), grabbed the swimming gear and towels, I packed the camera, and off we went to Scott Landing at the end of the peninsula. To ensure that the picnic wasn't rained off, the food was item number one.

Then play in the sand and water until the rain did start again. Packed up and back to the car to head back to the beach house. A late afternoon run after the rain paused again. Apparently we should expect wet weather for the next two weeks; exactly the time the Sydney based family members are here.

After the boys had gone to bed we got a telephone call from mother-in-law wanting to know which planet she might be seeing in the eastern sky. When there was total cloud cover? So I trotted off to investigate. Below the cliff was moored a catamaran with a light at the top of its mast. Ah ha! Told S who went to tell her mother, as I got the camera to document it with this picture.

BUT.... the mast was not visible from her window. Further investigation by the great detective, S, revealed that a bright orange light from a neigbour's window was being reflected in the angled glass of mother-in-law's bay window. Mystery actually solved.

I used a tripod to avoid camera shake, and the image was cropped slightly.