WEDNESDAY - A BEACH DAY

It’s a tough life but somebody has to do it. Today was a perfect beach day. We went for a long walk before breakfast along the very scenic coastal ridge and back through a moist coastal forest.

After breakfast, we went for a surf, certainly the best surf I have had this summer and perhaps the best for a number of summers. After organizing our seafood for dinner, having lunch and the obligatory snooze, we went exploring and found Smoky Cape Lighthouse and followed some challenging 4WD tracks to find Gap Beach, strategically placed between two headlands. The car is no longer as clean as it was when we left home.

We followed that with another surf and am now enjoying our wine and oysters. I am about to fire up the stove to cook our lemon peppered prawns.  As I said, it’s a tough life.

As one would expect in a National park, we encountered plenty of wildlife including two Tawny Frogmouths which live above our heads. They are obviously nocturnal (being members of the owl family) in that they have not moved all day.

Tomorrow, after our morning surf, we will be  heading south towards Kosciusko although we don’t expect to get that far in one day. That’s the next destination where we intend to spend a couple of nights.