Thursday: a grey day, but warm and dry. We hired a little half cabin boat from the Tea Gardens boat shed and motored gently under the Singing Bridge towards the mouth of the Myall River.
The boat chap showed us on the map some good fishing spots and we headed for one of those. A few other small boats were there. We chucked in our lines with a delicious selection of live beach worms and frozen prawns.
Jan caught several fish, but they were all the horrid little toadfish, aka puffer fish. We chucked them back. I had a few nibbles, but no fish. Nobody else was catching anything either! Still, it was lovely and peaceful on the water with plenty of bird life to keep us interested. We even spotted the local dolphins cruising along the shallows.
We had a dip in the afternoon and walked to the local restaurant and bar for beer and pizza in the evening. Luvverly!
Friday: a morning swim and sunbathe. Then a treat
– brunch at the Boatshed cafe. Bacon and poached eggs for me, Jan had something with green slime all over it – probably avocado. The tatty old boatshed has had a makeover with its waterside verandah extended. The food and coffee are very good and the genus loci hard to beat. We then wandered along the riverfront at Tea Gardens and watched the pelicans. I took lots of pelican pix.
Afternoon was spent on the golf course. A grey day again, but good golfing weather as it was only mid-20s, not too hot. I managed one par and was not bested by Jan this time. Jan was hitting some good shots as well.
Dinner was takeaway fish and chips.
Saturday: lazy morning reading the papers. Then a swim, then lunch, then more reading. Tonight is dinner at the lovely Tillermans.
