Sunset over the Tweed

What a lovely way to end the day

Daily walks

Thanks to Peppers demands, Eileen and I have made a habit of early morning and late afternoon walks. When you take the time to enjoy these moments, it is amazing to see and witness the beauty that surrounds us.

The Bird life around the lake is quite varied and we have decided to attempt to log the different species that we see and to photograph if possible.

Murwillimbah, Tumbulgum and Mt Warning.

Today saw us take a day trip to Mt Warning via Murwillimbah and included a lovely counter lunch at the Tumbulgum Pub.

The climb up into Mt Warning was very nice but as we had Pepper with us we could only go as far as the National Park signs.

Family Visit on 2nd July 2009

It was great to have Alexandra, Dylan, Lela and Aminah visit us for lunch and a look around. We went for a short walk through the mangroves and along the boardwalk.

A very relaxing and plesant day with family - long overdue.

Lots of things to catch up on and look forward to Christmas hollidays when they can come and stay for a few days.

Good times had and friendships made.......

We are sure that along the track we will meet a lot of great people and Peter and Barbara Weigans will go down as the first couple we met who were not only extremely helpful but good fun to be with also.

A couple of plesant entertaining nights and lots of helpful caravaning information to add to the growing list that we have already discovered.




Peters rig was a tri-axle 36 footer.... huge.

Fishing for fun

Bradley and I wet a line and caught a couple but Eileen made us let them go.

Bradley, Pepper and Grandmar.

Bradley came for a visit and stayed three nights, I hope that he enjoyed his stay as much as we enjoyed his company..... Grandmar can't wait till the Christmas holiday's.... hint hint.

Mistletoebird

Mistletoebird

This little fellow is not all that easy to see, so we were quite happy to catch this shot of this one





More information can be read here
http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/finder/display.cfm?id=134

When a Van is a Home......

Eileen has almost finally converted the van into our home and I have to say that it is nice to have some of the memories around.

It is surprising just how comfortable such a confined area can be when it is just the two of us and we are both happy that we chose this lay out with the slide out and head height. The recliners are very comfortable and I find that I can sleep in them just as easily as I did at home.

The table not being in a fixed position allows us to push it up against the front wall while we only need the use of two chairs. We will move it back when we entertain guests...... hint hint.


While the absence of an oven was originally a concern to Eileen, we have found that between the webber BBQ and the Cookwell that we have purchased, we may well save the $800 required to install one.

The Kitchen is fairly well layed out and the fridge is more than adequate for our needs, I have made a couple of moderations to two of the cupboards to give us a little more useable space.

The front loader washing machine is located under the sink next to the entry door and I fear that I may have to do some modifications to the plumbing as it is fitted into the galley gray tank and we occasionally get a bit of odour from the vent.

The Dining and Entertaining area could not be better and there is ample storage for those things that we seem to need like, DVD's, Books, Cameras, Alcohol and Puppies toys and tid bits.

We had a little difficulty with the DVD player and to their credit PlayMore sent us another DVD player which I had wired in to the back of the Jensen and we have since found that we can play some DVD's on the old one (different regions).

The Jensen has speakers outside in the Annexe area so we can listen to music while relaxing in the cool in the evenings.

Rainy, rainy nights.....

After four nights of reasonably heavy rain we were baptised into wet weather living in the van and must say that we found it more acceptable than we had expected. The sound of rain on the roof was strangely quite calming.

The grounds around the campsite got rather waterlogged and it was good to eventually see the sun break through the clouds

It was, however, quite nice to get out and have a short drive around to see what the area had to offer. We drove over to Coolangatta and up to Greenmount lookout and captured this wild looking photo looking back to Surfers Paradise.

The seas were fairly choppy and I'm sure the water would have had a cold chill to it, not to mention the gusting winds blowing sand all over the place.

Tweed Heads River Retreat. 12th June 2009

We took delivery of our new home and set up camp at the Tweed Heads River Retreat caravan park situated on the bank of the Terranora Lake.

Talk about steep learning curve for the first week or so as we discovered all of those little things that are required in order to 'set up' that we did not have. It was all fun while we rose to the challenge and I'm sure Bunnings for one were very happy that we decided to make Tweed Heads our new temporary home.

I must say that our first night was very plesant and both Eileen and I slept well in our new bed as did Pepper in her beanbag in the living room which she has made her home. Pepper got us up early and we went for a short walk along the bank of the lake - very peaceful at 7am in the morning and the smell is clean and clear.