Judy & Brian Tour Oz

Sorry been a bit slack. We moved from Biggara Waters to Brunswick Heads, which is only 100km away and just up the road from Byron Bay. The park is an older park which runs alongside Simpsons Creek. We went for a riverside spot even at $70+ a night, but it was delightful. River chock-full of fish right at the back door, beach about 200m away, nice range of cafes and shops and of course the Brunswick Hotel even closer than that. Judy caught fish, I beach-walked, we wandered down to Byron and then back up through the hinterland and Mullumbimby. Pretty relaxing all round The people in the van next to us were friendly, I even socialised and fixed his battery charger for him as a bonus. The last night we went to the Hotel, where they Rock and Roll Bingo, which is a set of bingo like cards with song names on them, and as they play the songs you cross them off your card, five in a row and you win $50! We had a meal of oysters and antipasto and chips and a 'few' glasses of wine, to ...

And now for a bit of kulture.... Down the road at Currumbin Beach, the arty types have put on  a show for us called the Swell Sculpture Festival. You can make of them what you will... Giant crab.  Swell Sculpture Festival. Currumbin Qld Moonshot.  Swell Sculpture Festival. Currumbin Q Made from old bicycle bits, it span around in the breeze. Swell Sculpture Festival. Currumbin Qld Rather cute glass tree which I fancied was in the style of Lalique. Swell Sculpture Festival. Currumbin Qld A sea-monster. Swell Sculpture Festival. Currumbin Qld Sorry, no idea. Swell Sculpture Festival. Currumbin Qld Future transport? Swell Sculpture Festival. Currumbin Qld You grabbed a blue plastic tag from the box and wrote your own Pearl-of-wisdom on it and attached it to the  rest. Swell Sculpture Festival. Currumbin Qld Horses head? Swell Sculpture Festival. Currumbin Qld Conversation. Two swimmers, one sitting on the side of the p...

So, a whole week seems to have slipped by..... Where does the time go? Fishing / loafing around on a boat. Noosa River Qld  Noosa River Qld Orchid spectacular - not. Caloundra Qld Our old apartment, still looking good. Caloundra Qld But not as goos as good old Gemini Twin Towers. Caloundra Qld Chilling on Kings Beach, Caloundra Qld Getting all enervated and doing Parkrun at 7am. Noosa (Tewantin actually) Qld Wandering around the Blackall Ranges. Montville Qld Relaxing at Noosa Qld Doing the big walk at Noosa Heads Paperbarks at Tea tree Bay, Noosa headland Sandy beach at Granite Bay, Noosa Headland  Doing the farmers market thing on a Sunday morning, Noosaville, Qld Watching a wannabe doing his stuff at Noosaville markets Dreaming about boats, Noosa Marina, Tewantin Making ourselves beautiful. Coolum Beach Qld Exploring Boreen Point, Qld Reading the signs, Apollonian Hotel, Boreen ...

There are some very noticeable changes and money is obviously being spent inside 'our' park at Agnes Water: the toilets are being fully renovated and a new prefabricated office building is due in soon. They have set up shop in a new ‘demountable’ on the other side of the entry road and are waiting for the workers to come and remove the old office. New temporary office... Agnes Water Beach Caravan Park ...and out with the old. Agnes Water Beach Caravan Park It took them two attempts to get this small office out. The first time they gave up for some reason and went away, including the crane, for a few hours, the second time they managed to struggle it out into the street, but were oblivious to the overhead power lines. The moment they took some notice of a caravan park full of people yelling at them, they decided that enough was enough and instead of taking it down along the road a hundred metres and then up into someone's back yard, it was dumped on the front law...