Avoca Beach

Brian and Terry actually live at North Avoca Beach rather than Terrigal, which  is the next beach north.     Terrigal has all the shops, hotels and clubs and on Sunday was full of people enjoying the lovely weather.   

We met a number of  Brian and Terry's friends during the weekend.    And really enjoyed socialising, and drinking good wine and eating delicious food.    

The bush turkey below is not a welcome visitor to the house as it digs up the garden, and eats many of the plants.    Bush turkeys make a huge mess, but are protected as they are native birds.  Mean looking creatures too.

Dinner at Brian and Terry's.    Brian cooked a delicious roast lamb dinner, with meat that was straight from the farm.   Conversation flowed briskly, with many jokes and recounting of old times.    A thoroughly enjoyable evening.  

More socialising down at the North Avoca Surf Life Saving Club!

And finally fish and chips., whilst sitting on the lawn at Terrigal Beach.    A perfect way to end the day.

This is Avoca Beach looking north from the south end of the beach.    The patch of water on the left is the edge of the lagoon behind Brian and Terry's house.    The water in the centre of this bay is full of rips and currents and is quite dangerous.    Sadly a few hapless tourists have been swept out to sea and drowned.

A final look at North Avoca beach, at sunset, with the Australian flag flying proudly in the (strong) breeze!

And then we left reluctantly on Monday morning, in order to drive to Canberra.