What a nice break - and I have Monday off work also, so can still sleep in and read and have a late breakfast and potter about the suburb and cook new things - yay!!
Here are some highlights from our holiday in the Northern Rivers district:-
We stayed our first night at Port Macquarie. Nice town with a lovely beach to the south of the city (left, not us on the camels).
Beautiful beaches @ Byron - shame it was still a touch too cold and windy to swim, but perfect for reading and watching surfers. Who is that strange girl in the shadows??And below is a succulent in flower!
This was the view from the deck on the little A-frame place we rented. After a day here, I realised - almost to my dismay - that I had forgotten how trees blowing in the wind sound. We got up when we felt like it, toured the surroundings, went for walks, came back early-to-mid arvo and slept, read, lounged, and relaxed. We hiked up the mountain in the picture (Mt Warning, which is in a World Heritage-listed park due to its Remnant Gondwanan rainforest), and had sore calves for days to follow. Once it got dark, we broke open the wine or whisky, and cooked ourselves a simple dinner, followed by tropical fruit... Custard apples, dragon fruit, strawberries!!
But like all good things, it came to an end all too soon! Here's to holidays, and recharging the batteries!
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