Today's journey was a nice and easy drive with little traffic on the road. The weather was kind as the skies were blue and the sun was out.
Approaching Tweed Heads we decided to leave the Bruce Highway and take the coastal rout through the Sunshine Coast and Surfers Paradise. I must admit I felt the myriad of High rise buildings seemed to detract from the look of the area but I guess that's the decision the local council has taken. Anyway. the view was an improvement over the scenery offered at the side of the highway. although pulling a 20' caravan through the high street was a little nerve racking!
Once again we went through our ritual of "unhitching" and soon had all services connected. At this caravan park we elected to get an ensuite site. We are here for 3 nights so tomorrow morning we will decide where we want to go and what we want to see.
We quickly became aware that the caravan park was in the flight path of the local airport - easpecially when the 747's passed overhead!
27/08/2014
As the weather was good, we drove to Coolangatta and spent most of the day there.
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| Coolangatta high rise |
The place appeared nice and clean, quite good beaches, a few highrises and the customary road side cafe's dotted along the high street.
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| Coolangatta surf |
There were quite a few surfers braving what looked like a choppy sea; not so many people on the beach.
We stopped at a little cafe very near the beach and quite a few patrons had their dogs with them (as we did).
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| Waiting for breakfast |
We watched in amusement as a seagull stole bacon from a plate belonging to one guy (who was not that amused). Not sure if the seagull in the photographs is the culprit or not.
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| Tweed Heads at night |
We dined in Tweed Heads for dinner at the Twin Towns (somewhat underwhelmed with their offering)
28/08/2014
We had torrential rain all night up to 7am this morning. After that the winds came up and, of course, the ground was wet so we postponed our intended trip to Tamborine mountain.
We used the day to catch up on our reading and to review our trip plans for tomorrow even though the sun came out (the wind was still very blustery).
We were due to drive to South Ballina using a ferry to cross the local estuary, however, because of the high winds and the recent rainfall we decided it may turn out to be too problematic so we changed our destination to Yalumba.
Originally we only had to drive 88 kilometres (to Ballina) however we have added 90 kilometers to the journey (to Yalumba). This will still be an easy drive and on the upside, we will be 90 kilometers nearer our following destination (Port MacQuarie), so all is good.
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