Another very relaxing morning with breakfast by the pool. The weather is hot and sunny so several swims are necessary, sharing the water with this frog at one point.
The pool is freshwater and so the frogs like it but have difficulty getting out. A rescue is effected using the usual method used by our friends - the pool cleaning net.
A Skink comes to investigate, both at the side of the pool and on the breakfast table.
Our hosts take us to Snapper Rocks for lunch at the surf club. The venue is a two storey building on the headland between Rainbow Bay and Duranbah Bay, or D'Bah for short, to the south. The restaurant has a verandah all around the first floor so you can have lunch (Baramundi and fries today, for one of us anyway) watching the surf on Rainbow Beach and Snapper Rocks. Today a strong northerly is affecting the surf so there is not a lot of surfing going on, but the views are rather good (a bit of an understatement).
Across from Rainbow Bay is Surfers Paradise, but judging by the skyline I doubt that the prime activity is surfing, and it may not be everyone's idea of paradise.
This headland is right on the border between NSW and Queensland. There is a large monument to James Cook and a brass strip in the pavement to mark the division between the states.
You can see the brass strip sticking out of Eric's head!
It is at the end of a street that runs right along the border, with the division between the two states marked by the centre white line. The south side of the street is in the city of Tweed Heads, New South Wales, and the north in the city of Gold Coast, Queensland. The traffic regulations vary between states in OZ and here they change depending on the direction you drive down this street.
Where the border bends away from the street, at one point a Mexican restaurant has the kitchen in one state and the dining room in another. So the fact there is a time difference on either side of the border means your meal is actually ready to be served an hour before you've decide what you want! As we walk around, our too clever by half smartphone keeps changing its mind as to what time it is.
The headland is named Point Danger and has a plaque on the monument informing us that they have now discovered James Cook actually meant the name to be given to a point a few miles to the south. No one has the heart to change it now as they think it would be too confusing!
Looking south at D'Bah beach and the Tweed River mouth.
A visit to a local art gallery and, as no dogs are allowed inside, Eric finds an interesting spot to wait.
From here we make a short hop to a shopping mall to pick up some groceries (friends) and more significantly for us, some coffee and rather yummy cakes. We eat them before we thought a picture would be a good idea.
In the centre of the shops was a decorated Christmas tree, which really seems out of place in this weather. We don't yet feel that summer has ended. Thinks...well I guess it is November.
Very pretty but where are the presents?
Thunderstorms and heavy showers bring some welcome rain to our friends' farm. The mountains look rather good with mist and cloud shrouding them in parts.
Finished the evening being trounced playing Whist whilst enjoying a selection of delicious cheese, crackers, fresh fruit and salad. Mmmmmmm.