It was nine degrees Celsius at half past six, on what has been another virtually perfect day.
This evening from six o’clock we watched another in the documentary series, “The Wild, Wild World Of Animals”, with this offering focussing upon the elephant. At 7.00, “Willesee” is presented by the show’s resident jester, Paul Makin. Bill Peach’s “Peach’s Australia” — another series of documentary programmes — from 8.00, recounts the resultant savagery which transpired after the Dutch sailing ship, “Batavia”, was wrecked among the Houtman Abrolhos Islands off present-day Geraldton, in Western Australia, in 1629.
“The Garry McDonald Show”, which is hosted by the Australian actor and comedian, follows at half past eight, and, at nine, “Pacific Challenge” describes the crossing of the world’s largest ocean by three, manned rafts, which had been constructed of balsa. In total the journey took one hundred and eighty-five days. It had begun, in 1973, from Guayaquil, in Ecuador, and finished in Ballina, in the north of New South Wales. The rafts, authorities decided, had to be towed for the last eight miles, for it had been deemed that the craft represented a hazard to shipping.