Port Broughton

Today is Saturday.

It's Netball season, Fern and Rose play. Each week the hosting town changes. This week we traveled to Port Broughton. The Netball and Football competitions are programmed together. If we had boys playing football they would be over on the footie oval while the girls are over on the netball courts. It's a very social day. The mums and dads either sit in their cars watching their boys play footie or are standing at the netball court, freezing, cheering on their girls. It's a nice feeling of community.

Port Broughton is a pretty little seaside town. With playgrounds on the foreshore. After netball we made our way down to the beach. We enjoyed fish and chips overlooking the pretty bay. The kids played on the equipment. A couple of other Jamestown families were also enjoying the day. It's a little commercial boost to each of the towns.

I've been playing with my camera. I still haven't learnt to use it properly. More laziness than anything. I was chatting to some friends who suggested I should get a good camera for shooting photos for the Lilly Apron Pattern I'm writing. They advised me to get an SLR.

I'm a total techno-illiterate. I repeated the conversation to Pete and he looked at me with pity and smiled. "Tracy ..you have a camera as good as a digital SLR!" He bought me a digital camera for my 40th a couple of years ago. A Canon PowerShot S3IS. I only ever use it on auto as I'm afraid to touch all those buttons and dials.

It has a adjustable lens that makes things look close up.

This boat was off in the bay.

Can you see the boat out there on the bay? That's the one in the photo above.

I asked Pete, what does ISO mean? It keeps coming up in view finder.

It's a film speed says Pete. "Huh?" says I, "but I thought this was a digital camera?"

Oh dear, I have a lot to learn. It's lucky this camera just works on automatic isn't it?