Arrived safe after 282km towing through some quite bad rain! Staying on the Rugby League ground!
Friday had a day in Byron Bay, up to the light house we ventured! At a cost of $7 it was just brilliant! Hand gliding near us! I would like to try!
Club house for dinner and meat raffle Helen chose numbers and last two numbers called were ours! Leg of lamb and 6 T bones.
Saturday 10 May
Up early to the sound of young children playing rugby! We watched all morning it was wonderful! We met a family from Manukau that moved to the area 2 years ago! Kids
attended Manurewa High School and mentioned Mrs Black!?? Helen later realised they mean Diane Black the attendance lady.
After the rugby games we had a look around the town of Mullumbimby. A most interested little hippyish town which boasts its own Olympic sized swimming pool...very impressive. We had a nice little lunch and then found the RSL with the free Wifi! On arriving back at our camping site (the Mullumbimby Giants Rugby League club) we were happy to find new neighbours Jan, Steve and Michael... also travelling the big lap.
Sunday morning brought the onset of a special event, a grudge match against Byron Bay... that would consist of three games and guess what? the sun was shining!!! thankfully for the many spectators who had turned up. We spent all afternoon watching Rugby our side won two and lost their main A league game, so all not well with the world or the club house!
Monday morning and a very different take on the weather. We decided to take a Tiki tour into the hills and found the Nightcap National Park. As you can tell from the photographs wet weather gear was used!
A beautiful park with amazing views and a very photogenic Kookaburra!
Tweed Heads
Another tour took us about 50km trip north to a have a little look at Tweed Heads. Always our first find is the local Isite where the ladies there gave us all the information about another Lighthouse called Captain Cook Memorial.
Weather was on our side and off we went along the beachside and walked a beautiful boardwalk. Lots of surfers out catching the waves.. We are impressed. At the Lighthouse itself the memorial about Captain Cook was again very informative. Further along we walked another memorial walk where plaques had been placed to commemorate the ships that had been sunk in WWII quite amazing more than one from New Zealand. Richard looked at a number of padlocks that had been locked to the stainless steel wired fence along this walk, that were engraved/inscribed with people's births, deaths, marriages and undying love for each other!! we have heard of this before but never seen it until today. A beautiful lunch opposite the Lighthouse was had by us!
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| Bronze statues of children, they are looking up at the Australian Flag |
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| Captain Cook Lighthouse, Tweed Heads |
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| View towards Brisbane |
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| Plaques attached to the fence on the boardwalk, commemorating the loss of the ships in WWII |
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| Another plaque |
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| Helen's lunch
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Leaving Mullumbimby
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