Well, I finally have a wireless connection — at Cafe Annabel in Sawtell, just up the road from the resort. MANY days worth of entries and photos to upload.
Here are the photos:
The other item on the agenda is to get a reservation for my one night in Sydney before leaving for Auckland. It’s looking like the Quality Hotel Cambridge on Riley Street.
The plan for this afternoon, now that they rain seems to have stopped, it to do a little driving tour after my hour of Internet is up — $2 per hour at the cafe, $2 per ten minutes at the resort — and the resorts terminal doesn’t have anyway to upload anything, basically just an email and surfing terminal.Today’s adventures include a stop at The Big Banana — some of which is free (which is what we do) and some of which is $12.50 (which we pass on). They also had tobaggon rides, ice skating, and other odd things for a very WARM country.
After the Banana we are off on a sightseeing drive since it’s a partly cloudy day (botanical garden will be tomorrow, most likely). Many curvey roads up to an outlook in the Bruxner Park Flora Researve which was stunning, including two post-teens waiting until the tourists were gone to snog. Learned Joyce isn’t much for twisty curvey roads.
Next stop is to see some kangaroos on a private housing estate — and we found them, lots of them. This was recommened by the information station in Coffs Bay — by Gabriel, who lives out there. I’ll post the pictures at some point — so check the link to the Twango scrolling bar in the blog from yesterday or in a couple of days.
A lovely lunch at the Kafe Kookaburra — the mixed seafood basket — which later today is not sitting well with me, too much fried food. It was good, I just ate too much of it.
Then off to to George’s Gold Mine — which is way off the beaten track. Again, the magic number was $12.50, which I couldn’t get anyone else interested in, but we did have a nice chat with George Jr’s daughter, and looked at her souvenir booth.
Shopping, drinking, napping, and a dinner of lamb sausage, salad, sweet potatos, and the evil grape and grain (two bottles of Wild Turkey at the Cole’s today). Well, that was the plan. Joyce, Marty, and I are still feeling the effects of lunch…. so Eric is cooking for himself, though I might have a little sausage, or better yet, I should have some of the leftover salad. Or just more Tums.
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