Kingscliff Thursday
I am pleased at the location of this apartment. On the southern edges of Kingscliff there is a small river/creek that runs into the ocean and there are units along this water for several 100 metres. I took the photo from my verandah at 5.30 pm as the fullish moon was rising. The complex I am in has 28 units, some permanently occupied, and a swimming pool ( between me and the water). There is a boardwalk along the edge of the water into the main area. There are still lots of old buildings in Kingscliff- it is not all modern high rise. There is a fairly old caravan park in the middle of the shopping area and there are elderly normal ( i.e they look like they would belong more in Nimbin than the gold coast) residents wandering around.
The apartment is quite large – the living area is certainly bigger than my son’s apartment and much the same as my elder daughter’s. There are plenty of utensils and appliances in the kitchen – but the coffee plunger is broken – what a pity – I will have to wander into the shops for my morning ( and afternoon) coffee.
I slept in this morning - partly because my room is quite dark, there was no traffic noise and I had read in bed for quite a while the previous evening. I lay in bed listening to the different birds and there was another funny rythmical noise that I could not place. There was a swimmer gently swimming up the river. Over the next hour I saw a few more quite elderly looking swimmers. I also saw pelicans and , from my balcony, I could see fish in the shallows.
Later I walked to the bowling club which has a wireless network which seemed to work OK for me. The coffee was just OK . On the wall was a sign advertising their Sunday morning breakfast buffet. It cost $15 per person or $19 for the buffet and a ‘barefoot bowl’. I spent ages trying to think – does it cost more to have your breakfast in a bowl shaped like a bare foot? Is breakfast $4 more if you have no shoes on? I went and asked. Silly me – I had forgotten that I was in a bowling club – on Sunday morning after your breakfast you can have a bowl ( not a round shaped plate) on the bowling green with no shoes on for an extra $4.
I looked in the shops in Kingscliff but nothing in my size caught my fancy. I went to Salt – 1 ½ km south of here – a recently built suburb built in the middle of nowhere on the edge of the ocean with streets of huge homes and large apartment blocks with a central group of a few shops and a few restaurants. It felt weird, all the houses were the same – colour and very similar architecture - but the coffee in the coffee shop was nice. I had fish and chips for lunch in the bistro / pub.
I bought a few magazines yesterday and a book of Australian cryptic crosswords and I have sudokus on my laptop and I have several books to read and plenty of knitting – but I do not have to do any of it! The challenge will be not to worry about what I do not do.
Friday morning
I walked to Salt this morning for my morning coffee – a very pleasant walk along a bike path in the coastal scrub. Plenty of birds and flowers. I stopped to talk to some council workers having their morning tea. They said that there were only a few permanent residents in the huge houses and mentioned some famous Australian business identities who had holiday homes there. I said – the nearest airport is at Coolangatta isn’t it. One of them replied – yes, but many fly in in helicopters. There is a helipad over there ( pointing away from the water)
I am pleased at the location of this apartment. On the southern edges of Kingscliff there is a small river/creek that runs into the ocean and there are units along this water for several 100 metres. I took the photo from my verandah at 5.30 pm as the fullish moon was rising. The complex I am in has 28 units, some permanently occupied, and a swimming pool ( between me and the water). There is a boardwalk along the edge of the water into the main area. There are still lots of old buildings in Kingscliff- it is not all modern high rise. There is a fairly old caravan park in the middle of the shopping area and there are elderly normal ( i.e they look like they would belong more in Nimbin than the gold coast) residents wandering around.
The apartment is quite large – the living area is certainly bigger than my son’s apartment and much the same as my elder daughter’s. There are plenty of utensils and appliances in the kitchen – but the coffee plunger is broken – what a pity – I will have to wander into the shops for my morning ( and afternoon) coffee.
I slept in this morning - partly because my room is quite dark, there was no traffic noise and I had read in bed for quite a while the previous evening. I lay in bed listening to the different birds and there was another funny rythmical noise that I could not place. There was a swimmer gently swimming up the river. Over the next hour I saw a few more quite elderly looking swimmers. I also saw pelicans and , from my balcony, I could see fish in the shallows.
Later I walked to the bowling club which has a wireless network which seemed to work OK for me. The coffee was just OK . On the wall was a sign advertising their Sunday morning breakfast buffet. It cost $15 per person or $19 for the buffet and a ‘barefoot bowl’. I spent ages trying to think – does it cost more to have your breakfast in a bowl shaped like a bare foot? Is breakfast $4 more if you have no shoes on? I went and asked. Silly me – I had forgotten that I was in a bowling club – on Sunday morning after your breakfast you can have a bowl ( not a round shaped plate) on the bowling green with no shoes on for an extra $4.
I looked in the shops in Kingscliff but nothing in my size caught my fancy. I went to Salt – 1 ½ km south of here – a recently built suburb built in the middle of nowhere on the edge of the ocean with streets of huge homes and large apartment blocks with a central group of a few shops and a few restaurants. It felt weird, all the houses were the same – colour and very similar architecture - but the coffee in the coffee shop was nice. I had fish and chips for lunch in the bistro / pub.
I bought a few magazines yesterday and a book of Australian cryptic crosswords and I have sudokus on my laptop and I have several books to read and plenty of knitting – but I do not have to do any of it! The challenge will be not to worry about what I do not do.
Friday morning
I walked to Salt this morning for my morning coffee – a very pleasant walk along a bike path in the coastal scrub. Plenty of birds and flowers. I stopped to talk to some council workers having their morning tea. They said that there were only a few permanent residents in the huge houses and mentioned some famous Australian business identities who had holiday homes there. I said – the nearest airport is at Coolangatta isn’t it. One of them replied – yes, but many fly in in helicopters. There is a helipad over there ( pointing away from the water)
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sounds lovely mum :)cp
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