Results tagged “Batemans Bay” from Kazza the Blank One
Have had a rainy but quite relaxing weekend at the coast. On our way home now.
Had a nice easy drive down to the coast, arriving just after 6pm. Whereupon it was decided it was beer o'clock. We cooked a store-bought quiche for dinner (I mustn't have been with real men ;) ). Eventually got in the spa and stayed there for the next five or so hours. Ooops. :) DC mostly kept up with me drinking-wise. Not quite, but I was still impressed :)
Sunday was a bit of a sleepin (as you do). Spent a good chunk of the day doing a jigsaw of Neil's. And later played some Super Mario Galaxy. It was ok, but was really only one player so not as much fun (oh, played a bit of Lego Star Wars too, but really don't *get* it).
Dinner was a lamb roast with lots of veggies, and our wedding cake for dessert. And a Mount Majura Pinot Gris, which was very fruity. Watched Mythbusters and Iron Chef and Rockwiz and then fell asleep when Dave put on Keating the Musical. So abanoned that and got in the spa. Where we turned off the lights and sat and just watched all the stars. Was extraordinarily pretty. Stu and Dave saw the same shooting star, but I missed out :( Was determined to stay there til I saw one, but in the end Dave wanted Ben to get some sleep, so I got booted :)
Today we played some Mario Kart, went for a walk then cleaned up, and left for home. Dumped our stuff then headed straight back out again, this time to Ding's for a very civilised dinner. He'd been cooking up a storm all afternoon - he did a pretty amazing paella with mussells and calamari and prawns and crab and chicken and saffron. Jo also did a highly nomorific salad. Definitely ate far too much :) And had some Mount Majura Pinot Noir. And then there was dessert. !! Definitely need to have more dinner parties. Need to get a dining table...
Anyways. So that was the weekend. Think I need a weekend to recover from my weekend...
The eastern side of the Great Dividing Range, especially closer to the coast, is remarkably green at the moment.
Arrived in Bateman's Bay around sunset.
Got back to the house and was bedazzled by all the stars! So much better than even Canberra.
Got settled in, then played some Mario Kart on the Wii with Dave. I did pretty craptaculour to begin with, but then got the hang of it and was mostly equalling Dave and even won a bunch of races!
We'd been waiting around for the spa to heat up, so when it finally did we hopped in. Except it was far *too* hot! Oops. The cold spa next to the main one offered some relief so was pouring water from that one all over myself heh. Stayed up til about 1:30 and chatted (well Dave did most of the talking heh).
Saturday morning at 6:30 it was raining, so that didn't bode well. But by mid morning it had cleared up beautifully so we went for a walk down to get the papers.
The weather started closing in, and saw this cool waterspout out in the ocean..
Stu cooked dinner and we all got stuck into some beer. I lost three games of pool to Dave before deciding I'd rather play him on the Wii where I had half a chance of beating him ;)
Much beer goodness and Stu's good cooking later.
The spa had cooled down significantly by later in the evening, making it just pleasant. So we all hopped in. And stayed there til 2:45 .. oops! The poor dog (who doesn't like to miss any action) was completely wasted from trying to stay awake with us!
Sunday was grey and miserable, so we just stayed in and did pretty much nothing. Did the big sudoku and some crosswords. Played Wii. Had leftovers for lunch.
Then cleaned up and came home.
So it was just a lovely relaxing weekend. A bit tiring on account of staying up half the night ;) But very peaceful. Definitely need to do it again some time!
So Friday afternoon, we all meandered down to the coast. (If you're reading this in Google feed reader you might want to jump to the page as the page goes a bit screwy with the way MT4 does things..)
We arrived with enough time to wander down to the beach to play in the sand.
When we got back to the flat there were kangaroos in the front yard
Kerry cooked a nice stir fry for dinner, and we drank beer.
Saturday morning saw Kerry up before dawn to get photos of the sunrise.
And this nice shot of a seagull.
The flat has a bird feeder and visitors are encouraged to feed the birds.
So we did.
There were lots of birds.
After breakfast we all drove up to Myrtle Beach. It's a nice walk to the beach..
And we saw this cool lizard looking at us and catching ants.
Myrtle Beach.. covered in seaweed.
Unfortunately it was very rough, so we couldn't really swim there. So we went back to Maloney's Beach. Had a nice swim there. Saw this nifty hexagon-shaped house on the way back..
This is the view from the flat.. nice huh? :)
After unhealthy lunch of fish and chips, we headed down to the beach again.
Saw this.. thought it was a spider pushing a bug, but it was a bug dragging a spider!
Found a sand worm in the sand (strangely enough!)
And dug a big hole for Jake to play in.
Kerry and I went for a walk up to the end of the beach.
There were more birds back at the flat.
Kerry cooked dinner again Saturday night, this time pasta. And we drank beer.
Sunday morning still more birds. The most so far.
After bacon and eggs for brekky, we went up to the end of Long Beach again to go snorkelling, but couldn't see a thing due to all the crap in the water from the onshore wind.
But Scotty caught a couple of fish, which he let go.
And we dug another hole for Jake.
And then we came home.
A very pleasant and relaxing weekend. And cheap too - the place was only $85/night which we split between two families. Definitely need to go more often wethinks.