Thread: A day to remember

Not far from me some picnic benches and seats have been set up along with some pulling in spaces along the coast. I go down with my binoculars and see what's going on. I was down this week and it was a pretty exciting day. There was lots going on.
A heron was standing in the shallows doing what herons do when I noticed two gulls diving down and harassing the heron. The heron kept ducking the diving gulls and occasionally snapped back at them. A third gull joined the attack and the heron was forced to move. Even in flight the heron was harassed until it moved about a hundred yards down the bay.
There were some cormorants on a sand bank with outstretched wings, drying them.
There was a little boat with two rod fishermen in it. There was also the odd leaping trout, so as you see it was all kicking off and a very exciting day by my standards.
So I was busy taking all of this in when I heard a tourist bus pulling up but I kept on looking at the action. The bus disgorged it's contents which appeared to be American tourist. A woman from the bus apologised for intruding but I said there was lots of space. Most were elderly and some started looking at the stones and sea weed when someone asked "How old is your truck?" The 1992 110 200 tdi was parked in the bay near me. "31 years old I replied" A few of the tourist, both male and female were examining the "truck", so I went over to them. I explained that she was made in 1992 as a pickup, I bought her in 1996 and had her converted to a station wagon. This seemed to impress them so I showed them how the basic architecture of the vehicle lent itself to this and showed them how everything bolted together. Much impressed they were with the sheer simplicity of the concept. One man had worked on aircraft so was interest in the rivets and the aluminium used. By now there was no one looking at the stones or the seaweed they were all around the 110 taking lots of photos, probably of yours truly aswell. But what really made their day was when I demonstrated the humble removable interchangeable front seat bases. They thought this was nothing short of brilliant. Anyway it was only a brief stop so they had to go but a few, both men and women said they would like to stay and talk more but the bus was ready to go.
Anyway it was an action packed day as you can well imagine.

Nice to have one's vehicle admired, the other day I had to drop off some car ramps to a friend and he was working late at a large building near the cbd, so being in the evening I parked in the loading dock and later heard from one of the night cleaners that one of the others had asked what a nice car like mine was doing parked around the back of the building.