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Showing posts with label more Brunswick Heads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label more Brunswick Heads. Show all posts

Monday, November 19, 2012

The last few snippets about being in Brunswick Heads....

We've been home a few days now but I thought that I would just share some more of the photos.

These were the scenes which greeted us each morning...the river is like a mill pond at that time of day...


This time looking upstream from our cabin...

Some of the campers hoping to 'catch some breakfast' :-)
While DH and his friends played golf, my friend and I chatted and worked on craft projects...I worked on a throw with yarns that had been donated to K4BN and also stitched hexies. Mary learned a new craft...tapestery.

I had shown Mary how to do a basic tapestry stitch on Thursday  and from then she was  'hooked' !  This is a little wallhanging of a colourful bird which will go into the bedroom where the grandchildren sleep when they stay. 

I took this photo today but it shows the throw that I worked on while we were away...
Our constant companion each day was Charleigh the dog... (I spelled her name wrongly in a former post)


My friends had brought their coffee machine so I was spoiled having cappuccinos made for me... 

On Thursday and Friday we had a delicious cooked lunch...


On the last night all the golfers have dinner together at the Brunswick Heads Hotel which is in the township. DH took me as well but I was the only wife there... but my meal was delicious even if conversation was sparse...lol


The Brunswick Heads Hotel...

I noticed this sign across the road from the pub... seems like another community worried about the extraction of CSG

Another view of that old bridge...
On Friday morning DH had left for the day's golf very very early. Before he left he put heavy items into the car and then I finished packing the car later. So when he finished the competition we were ready to head back home. We had one stop on the way home, at Tweed Heads South. My SIL had told me about this big store there called Fantazia. I browsed around the 2 shops that make up the store, buying a few haberdashery items, including the cute gold tassel that I put on my hexie ornament. There were 4 in the packet and I have a feeling all will be used quite soon :-)
Had to take 2 photos to get the  facade in! It is huge!!!


Friday, November 16, 2012

A pictorial tour of Brunswick Heads' beaches....

On Wednesday, DH's golf game was later in the day so we took the opportunity to go down to the beach.
We walked out on one of the breakwaters...

There's the other breakwater...

We're almost at the end...the surf club is back in the distance...

DH standing on the rocks at the end of the breakwater; I didn't tempt fate by clambering on them ...I once fell heavily while scrambling over rocks at Caloundra :-(


Looking back towards the mouth of the Brunswick River...

A little sandy area on the other breakwater

The breakwaters create this lovely little safe beach as well as a safe channel up the river...

In this photo you can just see the bridge which is seen from our cabin in the tourist park

Looking south from the breakwater...the surf beach at Brunswick Heads

In the distance on the right is the outline of Cape Byron

Waves crashing on the end of the breakwater 

This fellow was sunning himself on a rock on the side of the breakwater that we walked on...

We noticed these birds, seagulls and cormorants; the cormorants were diving for fish in the shoal which shows as a shadow in the photo

The seagulls obviously can't dive and are a bit put out by the fact that the cormorants were getting the fish!

The lovely old wooden bridge going from the beach area towards the business centre

Another bridge in the distance

Row of pine trees...

Turn left and you are in the business area...

And DH bought us a coffee in the lovely coffee shop opposite yet another caravan park... it had been a lovely morning!