I'm playing a chess tournament in Somerset near Burnie on Tasmania's north coast. There isn't a lot of spare time, but I did get to Doctors Rock near Wynyard. Absolutely glorious!
I was in a bookshop today but they didn't have the book I wanted. So I went to the desk to see if they could order it. While I was waiting I looked at a book on the counter called A Field Guide To Tasmanian Fungi and I thought what a great book to help ID all the species I see about. I wasn't going to buy it, though, until I noticed that I knew one of the authors, who besides being a mycologist, is a keen chess player.
I was very tired this weekend. I think the cold mornings have worn me down over the past week.
So it was a very short drive to Low Head to see if any Little Penguins were hanging around under the dense Box Thorn Bushes (there weren't, or at least none that I could see).
Then a trip to Green's Beach which is very close to where I live. It's a great place to sit on rocks and let the ocean's mood rub off on you. (Calmness was the prevailing mood)
I've just entered the Tasmanian Open Chess Championship which will be held in Somerset in 2 weeks.
I would have liked to enter the Asian Senior Chess Championship which will be held in Mongolia as I've never been there. But, alas, that will not be happening.