Tweed Heads

Sunday, 15th September

An urban(e) scrub turkey

A jolly swagman

View south from Point Danger

State of confusion!

Breezy

Point Danger

View north

Compass

Wishing well sculpture

Where's those jumbucks?

Well done, Sydney Swans – it was very stressful watching all the injuries happen to the players!

It was a beautiful morning in Maroochydore as we packed up – 25degrees, clear skies and no wind.  The drive south to Tweed Heads was a real pleasure today; the M1 made driving through Brisbane just so easy – and our new e-tag also bipped at the appropriate time.  We did have a short hold up on the motorway south of Brisbane, but nothing major.

We are staying at the Big4 Tweed Billabong Holiday Park and arrived well before 11.00 am.  Unfortunately, it was nearly an hour before we were actually on site.  The nice lady in reception allocated us a “lovely” site overlooking the billabong.  All good until we attempted to back on and discovered the park bench situated behind the caravan meant that our draw bar would be on the road.  A park employee, who said he was very impressed with how we had backed onto site, offered to return to reception to have another site allocated.  “Please move to the next site, sir.”  We reversed around a big tree, discovered that the small concrete pad for the caravan had obviously been made for single axle, 15 feet caravans, and if we stayed on the slab then we couldn’t fix the jockey wheel into place because of the fall of the land.  If we reversed further back off the slab, then we wouldn’t be able to lower the jacks!  This time, we both returned to reception and asked for another site!  “Please move to the next site, sir, if you think it is big enough.”  So, for the third time in less than an hour, we reversed onto a site once again (we are getting pretty good at this backing stuff).  The park is very nice and well set up for children, but sites really need selecting first.

After lunch, we made the short drive across the border to Queensland and Coolangatta.  We stopped at Point Danger, with its views south along the NSW coast, and the Centaur Remembrance Walk.  The memorial walk along the cliff has plaques to honour all the ships sunk by the Japanese during World War 2; we were amazed to see that two ships were sunk in Bass Strait!  Despite the sea breeze, there were a large number of people on the beaches and taking advantage of the surf.  We drove north as far as Kirra Beach before heading back.

We know exactly how many planes and jets fly out of Coolangatta – we are directly under the flight path, just as the aircraft are powering upwards!!!