Judy & Brian Tour Oz: Tathra NSW, Whales, beach, rainbow

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Tathra NSW, Whales, beach, rainbow

We were due to leave here today, but as the weather is still not great anywhere from here to Port Douglas, we decided to extend ourselves for another week. Actually, it's a reflection of this place, its just so relaxed and easy to be in, neither of us could see any point in leaving to go somewhere else.

We took some exercise by walking up to the shops: its a bit of a climb up 10,000 steps (That's how many Judy counted, and would she fib to me?) The steps go through some bushland and we enjoyed looking at the various wildflowers, and some not so wild - positively tame actually, and listening to the million or so Bell Birds and a few thousand whip birds. You can only listen to them, i'll be damned if i can see them. Actually we might have looked straight at one, but it was way up in a tree and no camera...

This afternoon, we walked over to the beach to see what it was like at high tide. You see, it's not like an ordinary beach, well not at the moment at least, because the sand dunes stop abruptly at a 1 - 2 metre sand cliff face and the water is just there, maybe only 5 metres away at low tide. It was great, the waves pounding in and occasionally spilling over the top, or crashing into the next incoming wave in there rush to get back into the ocean. I was busy waiting for this fisherman to fall over as he juggled his time between fiddling with his rod and making phone calls. Sadly that didn't happen, but then Judy got all excited as a few dolphins started to surf the waves and then IT happened.... A damn whale started to breach and frolic about just off the beach. Sadly, all i ended up with was a bunch of 'splash' photos to add to my collection. We could see at least 2 others further out and we followed them around to Chamberlains Lookout (more splash snaps) and then we were rewarded with a perfect Rainbow.