Day 99-102, Tuesday – Friday 16 – 19/8/2016 Burleigh Heads On Wednesday, the car part arrives but it is the wrong one. We’re now relying on the new part to arrive and to be fitted on Friday or else we … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 99 – 102 – An anxious wait
Day 96-98 Saturday to Monday 13/8/2016 – 15/8/2016, Burleigh Heads Ergh, we’re so hungover we don’t even notice Mrs Curlew laying an egg outside our van. Those damn birds have got it in for me. Neighbours all pass the egg … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 96 – 98 – Nesting
Day 95 Friday, 12/8/2016, Burleigh Heads, 21 I’m enjoying walking the beach here. We drive south to Coolangatta. Is it really 57 years since I bought slushies at the life saving kiosk on Greenmount beach as a ten year old? … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 95 – Surfer’s Heaven
Day 94 Thursday 11/8/2016, Burleigh Heads, 24 This morning I climbed the headland upper walk to the Tugun lookout. The forest is busy with Brush Turkeys even one who flies up lands on a looping vine and starts happily swinging above me. There are two Curlews that stalk our park. The moment that you lock eyes on them they freeze using camouflage to hide themselves from view but it doesn’t quite work. They look more like a couple of old ladies locked in a Tai Chi position. We drive north to Sanctuary Cove for a coffee then ogle the mansions … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 94 – Curlew Tai Chi
Day 93 Wednesday 10/8/2016, Burleigh Heads, 24 While the Woody and his brother Woody the Elder go off in search of the Russian Deli that we learnt about last night, my sister in law The very good golfer takes me … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 93 – Purling Brook Falls
Day 92 Tuesday, 9/8/2016, Burleigh Heads, 21 As the car is still at the garage we catch the bus to the newly remodelled Pacific Fair shopping centre. Woohoo! A productive morning is spent shopping for our next holiday, we can’t … Continue reading like a Rollingstone, Day 92 – Pacific Fair and another lockout
Day 91 Monday, 8/8/2016, Burleigh Heads, warm morning, cool afternoon This morning I walk around the Burleigh headland to Tallebudgera Creek where a dredge is sucking up sand and pumping it overland to the Burleigh Heads beach. This is an … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 91 – Burleigh Headland walk
Day 90 Sunday, 7/8/2016, Burleigh Heads, warm morning, cool afternoon I walk along the beach, dolphins play in the surf behind the surfers. It’s a glorious morning. Green surf curls in. The skyscrapers of Surfers Paradise are in the distance. … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 90 – Breathtaking Burleigh
Day 89 Saturday, 6/8/2016, Toowoomba to Burleigh Heads, nice morning, cold ‘arvie’ (that’s Qld speak for arvo, sorry afternoon). After an ear popping 10% descent down the escarpment into the Lockyer Valley the highway is flanked with market gardens. It’s … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 89 – Back to the city
Day 88 Friday, 5/8/2016, Toowoomba, nice A few kilometres out of town in the suburb of Highfields a narrow road drops down the escarpment in a 21% descent into the Lockyer Valley. Tucked into the hillside directly below Highfields is … Continue reading Like a Rollingstone, Day 88 – Spring Bluff
