10th Dec, Last day camping...Kites, Balls and Goodbyes..... Cotton Tree

Well the tent didn't blow away last night much to our relief, so to celebrate, we're gonna pop down the coast to Colundra and have a look round. As we've gone round Oz, we haven't come up against many traffic lights or roundabouts and the reason for this, is cos the've stuck um all on the same road. I suppose to some, it might seem like a good system, roundabout, traffic lights, roundabout, traffic lights, keeping them no more than fifty yards apart, that way no one can build up speed and no one gets killed, unless someone manages to get hold of the pr*ck that came up with the idea in the first place....

Colundra is another Estuary town and the main water sport here is kite surfing, (much more peaceful than jet bikes).. Its very interesting to watch the boarders zip the whole two hundred yards across the neck of the river, turn round and zip back. Theres loads of the bleeders and we watched them for ages. I could only imagine the mayhem that would occur if a boat wanted to get through them to get to the sea, (looks like crossing me fingers didn't help).

As Ozzie towns go, this one weren't bad, plenty of opp shops for Lin to check out and loads of seats outside for me to get comfy on.... (everyone's a winner). The trip back was pretty much the same as getting here, stop, start, stop, start, I even spotted a speed camera, the big sign saying speed camera helped.

Its a shame really, apart from the wind getting even stronger, its our last night in the tent and things seem to be getting noisier, the people opposite have got guests and they ain't keeping it down, we've got car horns tooting somewhere round the back and a couple of girls screeching somewhere and to top it off, we've managed to lose the bike keys, good job old smarty pants had the sense to keep a complete spare set. what a way to end a day....

Caloundra and the kite surfers....

This is a group of Tai Chee practitioners practicing on the beach at Cotton tree.. it was amazing to watch and very therapeutic... I just managed to catch the ball they were using as it skimmed the water...

Th lesson ends and they relax...

John pops down to the beach to watch our last coastal sunset for a while....

Thats all for today.... xx