23 January 2011

Fine weather sees us at the beaches

Well after some really shocking weather it has rained for weeks and weeks and then we had the huge deluge of the QLD floods. We are on a slope here at FKS and therefore the drainage is great it just runs off and there are also huge drainage pits so not a problem for us.
With this fine weather we decided to take to a couple of lovely beaches and go to the surf clubs for lunch.
Last weekend we headed north to Coolum and had a nice lunch on the balconey.
And today saw us head south to Bribie Island, this trip was to mainly go and check on Terry and Patricia's caravan that they have stored in a paddock, Brian wondered if it had sunk into the ground but the old NZ Zephyr appears to be fine we were wondering if it is a bit mouldy inside from all the damp and humidity - now that is something Patricia will find out in May when they arrive back. We again ended up at the Bribie Island Surf Club for a light lunch the restaurant was crowded by 1.00pm, so thankful we went when we did instead of waiting to go a bit later, the surf club is actually at the tip of bribie at a place named Woorium and this is where terry and Patricia stay at the caravan park.We will go down a couple of times with our van while T & P are in camp. Even though the surf was chocolate brown from all the run off and whatever was coming out of the Brisbane river there were still alot of people in swimming.

These photos were taken at Coolum Beach which is north of us on the coast.







Here are a few pics from Bribie Island, to get to Bribie - Woorium we head south for about 30mins from our place and then turn toward the coast, from the highway to Bribie - Woorium is about 70km.