Tweed Heads

It's been a nice couple of days here so far. The park is really pleasant. It has nearly 200 sites but only around 50 tourist sites. The rest are permanents or holiday vans. The permanent residents are really nice and friendly which is good. I'm loving the fact that the official sunrise is now 5.30 am and sunset was 7.35pm compared to 4.30 and 6.35 just over that border. I love and really missed daylight savings. The park is really clean and tidy so it suprises me there are so few tourists-still only another couple of vans and a few tents. We are still the only ones on these en suite sites.

Russ got really sick on night one-we think he either had a gall bladder or kidney stone attack. It left him very tired and tender the next day. We had intended to put the boat in the Tweed River and go for a bit of a tour, but decided instead to drive out along the river to Murwillumbah and then cross the highway and travel home along the coast through Kingscliffe. The Tweed Valley has always been one of my favourite places, with its great weather and scenery and the fact it's not too ritzy and glitzy. We did a bit of shopping, then had lunch in Murwillumbah-sushi from a shushi train, something I've never done before. It was a good choice for Russ as it's light and you only eat what you want.

Yesterday we put the boat in at the parks boat ramp and headed off for a look down towards Tweed Heads/Coolangatta which was very pretty. We also managed to catch ourselves 6 whiting for our entree. We came home, left the boat in the water and had a late lunch before heading up the other way. It's so civilized when you can go home to the toilet (beats a bucket in the boat!), and make yourself a fresh lunch. We caught one more whiting and headed home around 5.30.

Today we'll do a bit more fishing then tomorrow we'll go to Dave and Jule's for Amber's birthday.