Animal Cruelty

On the morning of leaving to Coffs, John went down to the shed to get a couple of bottle of wine. On our eleventh day of hols, we get a message from Pat - chook in locked shed. At first we couldn't remember where the keys were and had both Pat and Graham searching the usual places and in the end Graham screwed the square air vent off the door. The chook shot out for water. The hen had no water or food for 11 days. Today that hen must have forgiven us as she laid her first egg in over two weeks.

John's 66th Birthday

Happy Birthday John. No balloons or streamers, just a quiet day and evening.

The wedding

Louise and Wayne were married at the Tangaratta winery on Sat. 30th at 5pm. Everything went perfectly and the weather could not have been better. A bus picked up all the guest who stayed at one motel and drove us there and back, so everyone could have a drink.

Tamworth

Armidale was a lovely old town and we walked looking at the old buildings which were so grand. As I didnt take any photos there but I did of the Tamworth PO

coffs

Coffs

Away from Home

Over the past few weeks we've travelled north, staying at Tuncurry overnight then on to Coffs Harbour for 10 days, on to Armidale overnight and then to Louise and Wayne's wedding. We've never stopped at Tuncurry and its was lovely as it was out of tourist season and not many about. Forster which is just over the bridge seemed larger and more of a business area.

We've been to Coffs Harbour before and enjoyed it this time as much. We didn't do the travelling as last time, the furthest was Sawtell and this is just down the road. Not every day was sunny, so it was walks about the area and even walking into town. I think we did an average of 8ks a day. There were markets on two days and went to both. At one I bought a silver necklace with a dragonfly and John got talking to the maker. He made arrangements to put a new stone in John's ring and would post it back home. We walked the sands at Sawtell as well as Coffs on the good days, and we collected alot of cuttle shells for the birds. We climbed Mutton Bird Island and the view from the top looking back over the bay was beautiful. Eating was another pleasure especially with no washing up to do afterwards. A visit to the Big Banana was a disappointment as the light rail no longer operated but still least learnt a bit more about bananas.