Our journey South continues - we arrived in Noosa Heads, a very high end place. No possibility of staying there, too crowded - probably couldn't afford the fee for a powered site. We did have lunch there and we almost had to get a job doing dishes. Prices are terrible. We walked down the street checking out the stores, nice little boutiques, however, I saw a handbag I liked, went in to look at it and it was $596.00. I dropped it like a hot potato, I was afraid some of the gold threads would break, it must have been gold threads holding it together, I couldn't imagine why else it would cost so much. Needless to say, we didn't do any shopping.
We continued on our way, the scenery was lovely when we could see the ocean, a lot of the driving was on the main highway and there is not much to see there. We stayed at a little place called Jacob's Well for the night. A small campground but right on the water, very full as it was the start of a long week-end in Queensland so everyone was out camping. They don't care if its raining and cool. I guess they are used to it.
When we are travelling, we always leave early, usually by 7:00 so we always get to the next place fairly early. Our next stop was Surfers Paradise. We had brunch at a little coffee house, close to the water. We walked up to the beach, watched all the surfers out and decided we had best leave while we could get out of town. It was Anzac days...Australia New Zealand Army Corp and they celebrate like we do Remembrance Day, only on a much larger scale. There were so many streets blocked off for the parade. The weather was really nice so you know the crowds would be out. That is the most people we had ever seen on any of the beaches. All that day, all the beaches we came to were full, usually you could shoot a canon down any beach and never hit a soul.
We arrived at Tweed Heads and stayed at the Tweed Billabong Caravan Park, it is a Big 4 and we had stayed there when we were down in 2001. We really liked it then and we still think it is a great park.
This is what you see on the way to the pool in our caravan park
It is actually 2 pools, connected by a little bridge, on one side is a water slide for the kids and the other side has a waterfall and seating around with jets so you can have pressure on your back if you wish
On this side you can go in on a gentle slope
This side has a step down. Now I really want a pool
We spent the afternoon by the pool and had an early night.
Dalton planned to go golfing on Monday morning, he lined up a cab to pick him up, he had a tee time of 9:15. In his excitement, he forgot to check if there was a time change, just assumed there was and headed off to the course, arriving at 7:00, place hasn't even opened yet. When he wants to golf there is just no stopping him. He did get a game in and was able to play with three others so it was pretty good for him. He came home exhausted and starving.
David arrived from his week off in Tassie, he flew into Coolingata, which is the Queensland Town, on the border with Tweed Heads, that's why they call it the twin cities. Anyway, he came over to the campsite and had lunch with me. He wasn't able to stay until Dalton finished golfing but we had a nice visit and I showed him all the places we had been. He was familiar with most of the places, but there are a few that he hadn't been yet. David is working out of Byron Bay building trails in one of the National Parks We will be seeing him again on the week-end.
When Dalton got home from golfing, we took a free bus into town and went to the same RSL we had been to when we were down in 2001. The RSL here is one of the nicest we have seen so far, it is huge, about 4 floors. They have 4 restaurants and they are all very good. We had one of the nicest meals and probably the cheapest since we arrived in Australia. We won $86.00 on the pokies before we took the free bus home again. The bus driver delivered us right to the caravan park entrance, such service.
We stayed two more days in Tweed Heads, spent one day wandering around checking everything out and the last day, we spent going to all three RSLs and ended up walking home from the last one. Didn't want to wait the hour for the next bus as our luck was not as good as it had been.
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