Beautiful One Day……

Hi there,

Well I know I haven’t posted for a while, but have been fairly busy again.

Anyway, I thought it was about time I shared with you our (Tanya and I) trip to North Stradbroke Island.

It was just a weekend visit, but the island is very beautiful. Well at least the parts that we visited are!

We left around lunch time on Saturday 5th February, on the ferry which leaves from the suburb of Cleveland in Brisbane. About 45-60mins later we arrived at Dunwich on North Stradbroke Island. The ferry had about 20 vehicles on board.

From Dunwich we drove past Amity Point, to Point Lookout. We decided to go for a bit of a drive to the beach, but first we had to get to our accommodation.

We stayed at a bed and breakfast called Staddie Views. A lovely place, the hosts were very nice people. I recommend staying there if you ever go to North Straddie.

We visited Main Beach, which is a surfing beach on the east coast of North Starddie. We took quite a few photos here.

Then we went to Cylinder and Dead Man’s Beaches. We took some more photos, and then decided to go swimming at Cylinder. The water was absolutely beautiful, it was warm just like on a nice summer’s day at Port Hughes in SA. There were enough waves to do a bit of body surfing, which I paid for the next day, having quite a sore neck.

After that we went back and showered then headed to La Focaccia for an alfresco dinner. This was a quaint little BYO restaurant that served some really nice food. After stuffing ourselves silly we went for a short walk before retiring for the day.

On Sunday, after a nice sleep in, we got up for an enormous breakfast of cereal, fruit, toast, juice, bacon, scrambled or fried eggs, mushrooms, tomatoes and coffee or tea. So as you can see there was no need for lunch.

Once we had checked out we headed to Frenchman’s Beach Lookout and to North Gorge to take some more photos. Check out most of the photos we took/had taken while we were at Point Lookout below.

Tanya and I drove back to Dunwich around 12pm to head back to Cleveland on the mainland. We both had a great weekend and would love to go back to trek some of the walking trails there.

Cheers for now,
Damo

The ferry arriving from Dunwich at Cleveland before we got on to go to North Stradbroke Island.

Waiting at the ferry terminal on the mainland.

That's a cheesy grin!

Inside the ferry on the passenger deck. Note the small cafe/bar on the left.

An old propeller for the ferry

Looking back to the Cleveland ferry landing

One of the smaller passenger ferries

Looking out the back of the ferry towards the shrinking view of the mainland

The ferry landing and monozite sand loading facility at Dunwich.

The coastal township of Dunwich

A slightly blurry photo of the B&B room.

Our teeny tiny courtyard at the B&B

Nice photo of the snazzy bathroom, Tanya!

Looking down the drive of the B&B out to sea.

Are we here, Tanya???

A close up of the information board map of Point Lookout.

Our view walking down onto Cylinder Beach. We decided to go swimming here later in the day.

Some of the abundant flora on Straddie

Some more flora of the island

The interesting warning sign at the beach

The view looking south along the east coast of North Stradbroke Island

A quite cove next to Main Beach, it is a bit more sheltered here.

The rolling waves at Main Beach

Main Beach, this beach is patrolled by SLSS

The view from the balcony of the bed and breakfast

Smile Tanya, it's a nice day!

Oh isn't that nice.

This is Rocky Point where Deadman's Beach and Frenchman's Beach meet

Looking back onto Frenchman's Beach

The view from "Norm's Seat" on the way to North Gorge.

Danger! Danger!

What a great view (The coast line, not my rear end!)

Looking inland up North Gorge

That guy in the middle has some serious flatulance!

Down on the rocks (near North Gorge) facing Frenchman's Beach

The rock formation of the coast line near North Gorge

Tidal swells at the entrance of North Gorge