Tannum Sands

Monday, 22 June 2015

Rex, Carlene, Les

Friendly bald coot

Nesting ibis

Les, Denise, Pauline, Barry - finally worked out how to use the timer!

A friendly bird

The winter solstice has now been and gone – we are now looking forward to the summer solstice!

Sunday morning at Hervey Bay was quiet, until we arrived at the “must visit” market – everyone was there!!!  All the stalls that we had seen the previous day at Urangan were there, along with plenty more; lots of nice fruit and vegetables to be had at a very reasonable price too.  The market was set up surrounding the local animal shelter – dogs and cats – and Himself made special friends with a lovely, placid cat but had to leave her behind as Cat would not have been amused.  Shortly after lunch we were enjoying the caravanners’ past time of watching new arrivals’ attempts at getting onto tight sites and suddenly realised it was Rex and Carlene.  Of course, the remainder of the afternoon was spent catching up on news and sampling my orange and poppyseed cake.  As the afternoon passed, word was spread by the local midgie population that dinner was being served at Site 129 – red and itchy legs now for the next fortnight.

Today it was time to pack up for the move to Tannum Sands but, of course, it did take us much longer this morning by the time we farewelled Red and Carlene and then the people opposite suddenly decided to get to know us and have a long chat.  The drive north was uneventful, traffic wasn’t too bad and the countryside was mainly bush with some sugarcane and mango farms.

We arrived at the Tannum Sands Top Tourist Park shortly after lunch; Denise and Barry arrived here this morning, so there was more conversation this afternoon and devouring the remainder of my cake.  We had a very friendly kookaburra visit us while we were sitting and talking - he flew underneath the awning from one end to the other, directly above our heads and then sat on the awning strut right above Denise and then flew back to the strut next to the door and was quite happy for me to stand beside him.

The weather today was a bit warmer than yesterday – about 23-24 – and a touch cloudy.