“AS SLOW as a wet week” took on added meaning with the region copping a bucketing with an average of 42.5 mm of rain.
The precipitation fell mainly on Tuesday, but the rest of the week was still gloomy, with more rain predicted this weekend.
It got so bad out on Corio Bay, the fifth race in the International 14 World Championships became a battle for survival, with even the race leaders upturned.
At least the race went ahead – over at Sorrento the fourth race in the Moth World Championships was abandoned.
The water must be wetter over there.
SURFING legend Wayne Lynch’s Anglesea home, Namatjira, has been sold for $3.5 million.
The iconic coastal property, home to Lynch and his family for 35 years, was sold late last year to Clapmore Pty Ltd, a company associated with Andrew Grech, the managing director at Slater & Gordon and his wife, Daniela, according to industry reports.
The Great Ocean Road property sits half-way between Anglesea and Aireys Inlet at Urquhart Bluff.
TALK about rubbing salt in the wound.
Ford’s aluminum-body F-150 pickup has just picked up the North American Truck of the Year award, topping the votes of an independent, 57-member jury of US and Canadian auto writers and editors.
With Ford closing down in Geelong, and Alcoa – which is producing the metal for the F-150 – now gone, it’s cold cheer for a couple of thousand workers who, under different circumstances, might have been making aluminium cars here.
A MELBOURNE driver must have thought he was still in the big smoke during a visit to Geelong this week.
He was travelling up Gheringhap Street in the left lane and put on his left indicator but then did a right turn into McKillop Street, Melbourne hook turn style.
Maybe he was just an old timer who remembered when we still had trams in our city.
