NEW YEARS EVE
The theme for New Years Eve was a White Party with Crazy Hats . The location was the Northern Beach ( as opposed to the previous sundowners at the southern beach ). The southern beach has less shore break from the swell but is pebbly whilst the northern beach is more open to swell but is all sand and at low tide has a very gentle slope of hard sand that ramps up to the soft sand .
We also had a game of roulette which was provided by Matakana ( Tony and Gail ) at which Tony performed the function of the House croupier . There was no hard cash involved , and Tania Ebeling demonstrated her innate gambling skills by scooping the pool with handfuls of chips . Tony later advised that the roulette table provided for the night was from an illegal gambling establishment from those days when gambling was illegal in NSW and that it was the actual roulette wheel that was used by the owner of the establishment . Talk about authenticity !
Back to Tania . Murray opined about various ‘ counting ’ methods to explain her success , but when someone actually thought to ask Tania how she did it , she said that it was just a “ feeling ”. Her husband Greig was starting to look a little concerned that his spouse was demonstrating such unbridled joy in her gambling enterprise and success .
The NYE White and Crazy hat party getting started ( from offshore )