First call to the Island...

I suppose it was inevitable -after several e-mails etc, that we'd end up having to make a 'phone call to someone on Flinders -- Barbs got a heads up from Gerard Walker of Flinders Island Cabin Park (we'd sent a feeler e-mail about long term and caravans) and he put us in touch with a friend of his who is leaving and wanted a longer term rental -- A bit more than we wanted to pay, but it did offer a firm foothold. Only the friend didn't have e-mail... so we ended calling this morning. It didn't quite work out (he wants years, we want months) but the bloke was pleasant, decent and friendly and helpful about it. And there was something of a frisson to knowing B was talking to someone across several large chunks of ocean. It kind of brought home to me how much things have changed - once a letter would have had to wait for two boats to get there, and taken months.