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| Beautiful and deserted Elizabeth Beach |
We all had a great night's sleep - even though the cabin was cold (they provided lots of blankets AND electric blankets (very exciting - never had one before). Tom went to bed around 7 and Matt and I were in bed before 9pm (very rock and roll aren't we!). We slept until 7 so we all woke up raring to go.
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| Jumping in the waves |
We had breakfast, then Tom and I went exploring in the holiday park whilst Matt did his reading through. Tom and I discovered lots of Mangroves (this area is a narrow piece of land separating the ocean from fresh water lakes, so perfect for mangroves and lots of colourful birds (nearly every bird youse here looks like it should be in a zoo!). Shame I didn't have my camera with me as we came across some pink ones which Tom really liked.
We then went to the camp office where I asked about what to do in the area, the lady confirmed what we already were thinking of doing - an excursion south, to see beaches, Seal Rocks and the Sugar Loaf lighthouse, so that's what we did.
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| Eye on the ball as always (he did actually catch this one!) |
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| Getting caught in the waves |
I made up a picnic and then we headed out - I drove the car this time (it is easy to drive here, they drive on the same side of the road as us and once out of Sydney there really are very few cars). First stop was Elizabeth Beach in Booti Booti National Park. It was stunning: clear blue water, golden sand, mountains as a back drop and hardly anyone on it. Tom loved it and got really excited, he even wanted to dip his toes in the sea, which he did and to our amazement enjoyed it (last time we were on a beach with waves (Morecambe doesn't have waves) he refused to anywhere near the sea and sulked the whole time we were there). I went back to the car to get his swimming suit and he spent the next couple of hours either playing in the sea or playing rugby with the little rugby ball that he was given in Sydney as part of the Lions tour celebrations / marketing. He had a ball as did we. Unfortunately neither Matt nor I were prepared: we didn't have our swimming cossies, meaning we had to do the very British thing of rolling up our trousers and wade into the sea fully clothed. We got wet, dried out, got wet again etc etc.
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| Scuffed knees |
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| Whales |
After a couple of hours we decided to move on and headed down towards Seal Rocks and No. 1 Beach where we had lunch. We then continued playing in the sea, in and out, in and out, jump in, run away, run in. It was fantastic, the sea wasn't too cold, it was just a shame that we couldn't go as mad as we wished - tomorrow we will pack a beach bag for all of us. We really didn't expect the weather to be this good, we had uninterrupted blue sky, there was no breeze at all so it felt hotter than it was.
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| Sugarloaf Point Lighthouse |
We then hopped back in the car and drove round to the Lighthouse at Sugarloaf Point. It was a 500m walk up to it. All was going really well until Tom tripped up and fell flat on his face. He hurt himself pretty bad - scuffed both knees (dripping blood), bump on his face, scuffs on both arms and (we discovered later) scuffs on his chest too. Needless to say he cried, in fact he shook for a little bit, we managed to persuade him to continue and before long he was back to not looking where he was going and acting the fool again!
The view from the lighthouse was amazing: deep blue sea, you could see a very long way AND we saw whales playing in the surf, waving their tails at us. Well we thought they were whales, the guide book suggests that they are Nurse Sharks, anyhow it doesn't really matter, they were large animals with big tails playing in the sea and we enjoyed watching them.
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| Mangrove |
We then walked back to the car and headed back. We stopped off at a post office and finally bought some stamps so post cards can be sent soon. We then headed to Smith's Lake where we were told there was a really nice cafe called Frothy Coffee, sounded too good to kiss. We turned up at 3.45 and it was already closed for the day - boo!!! However, its location was spectacular so we hung around, took some photos and drew pictures in the sand, before heading in the car back to the campsite. We stopped off temporarily at the shops to get some bits (annoying things you need when self-catering: cling film, tea towels etc.
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| Sunset at Smith's Lake |
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| Happy Boy at Smith's Lake |
Tom had a shower whilst I cooked. I thought we would have lots of tears at shower time but Matt explained to Tom that he needs to clean his wounds - citing his example of not cleaning a wound and ending up in hospital. That gave him the impetus he needed and he happily submitted to a shower and cleaned all his wounds properly.
We sat down to a family meal (Tom doesn't like not eating with us which happened a few nights in Sydney so every evening he is checking with us that he is going to have a family meal). Pasta, tomato sauce and 4 big rump steaks of lamb - lamb is still the cheapest meat here so we will be eating lots of it.
A very lovely, beautiful and happy day
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