Judy & Brian Tour Oz: Merimbula NSW, Kite surfing, boardwalk, Hormosira banksii, Neptune's necklace

Sunday, September 7, 2014

Merimbula NSW, Kite surfing, boardwalk, Hormosira banksii, Neptune's necklace

Fathers day. Hey that's me. Thank you to my dear children for your best wishes.

Today dawned bright and sunny and almost calm. Going to be a fabulous day.

I went for another big walk over the hill and back, i must be getting fit again!

Then we had a slap up breakfast of bacon and eggs and tomatoes. We just had to take advantage of the good weather and ran a pile of clothes through the washing machine, washed the van and part of the car, and played a game of table tennis. Hey, good news, I took a game off Judy.

We are spoiled for choice for lunch, but in the end the open deck at the Tathra Hotel overlooking the ocean came out the winner. I had the roast, Judy elected for the fish, Both excellent. Tathra Wharf got the consolation prize of coffee and something sickly sweet: I had a Mongolian doughnut and Judy chose the vanilla slice.

We finished the day with a run down to Merimbula to find the boardwalk and the 'back lake'. The boardwalk is a 1.7 km boardwalk that runs around the edge of the lake (the Top Lake to be precise) starting at the bridge, which is where we took some snaps, including the jetliner zooming all those poor sods back to Sydney so they can go back to their respective grindstones. The Back Lake, turns out to be over the other side of town behind the Middle Beach, and is closed to the ocean most of the time. We pulled up and Judy took a few snaps of our intrepid Kite Man, who then immediately came into the beach and put his toys away.

A pleasant trip back to the van at Tathra and a nice cup of tea and a coconut rough bikkie. Almost took the nap option as well, but stayed awake long enough to finish the crossword and sort out some photos.

Speaking of photos, here they are: