Back to Australia, Again

O.K., O.K., so I am a terrible person. It is only once in a while that I actually get motivated and have the time to work on this. I promise that when Scott and I do really cool things again, I will post those things, but really, life has been a bit lacking in the adventure department since returning to the states.
 So, anyway, here we go again. Thank goodness we took notes.

Australia, Day 6:

 Ahah! Yes, I remember this well. Today was our designated Beach Day! As most of you already know, Scott is a bit translucent and turns into a lobster when exposed to too much sun. Therefore we try to minimize time just hanging out on the beach, but did designate one day of our trip mainly for my benefit.

We started our day with a leisurely breakfast of mangoes, yoghurt, pepperoni and cheese, and marmalade on toast, then headed out to our first beach: Broulee Beach. It was very windy. Here are some photos.

It was a bit rocky, and oh yeah, there were hundreds of dead birds!! You can't see them very well from these photos, but trust me, they were littering the beach in various states of decay. Mostly see birds if I recall correctly. Anyways, too windy, too rocky, too many dead birds, so we pushed on to beach #2: Tomakin Beach. Truth-be-told, some of the above pictures may actually be from Tomakin Beach, point is, there were also hundreds of dead birds at that beach as well. Ick!

We were a bit discouraged at this point, but decided to try a beach further north after we had stopped for a spot of lunch ('cause all those dead birds made us hungry?). Anyways, we decided on a lovely little cafe called "By the Beach" ('cause, you know, Beach Day). Scott had a steak sandwich and I had fish and chips.

After lunch we noticed that the sky had become quite dark and cloudy and that the wind had picked up. Crumbs. Well, how about we go into Bateman's Bay for a bit of putt-putt golf instead of going to the beach?

We tied in case anyone was wondering. J=HIO? (Cryptic note that neither of us can remember what it means.)

As we were golfing the skies cleared and the sun came out, so we decided to give the beach one last try. We headed over to Surfside Beach. It was a nice, sandy beach with calm waters and no (oops, strike that) only one dead bird. Yay, good enough! The water was really cold, but we swam anyway darnit!

 At this point I believe that the penguin boat captain called us to tell us that there would definitely NOT be any penguins for us on this trip (I recall that there was a slight possibility of seeing penguins later that day). Boo! So instead we went with Plan Q, which involved us grilling steaks on the outdoor grills provided by the resort. Crap. They aren't actually grills, they are like big, gas hotplates and it is starting to rain. O.K. well Plan W then: frying up the steaks in the condo.

Then I had a hankering for ice cream, but soon found out that the evening sun was very HOT and there was no ice cream in the nearby town of Mogo. Bummer. Well, lets play some board games then. The front desk boasted that they had some in the common lounge. And they did...Ludo and French Monopoly. I am not kidding. Here is a picture of the Monopoly board, and if I remember right, Ludo was the generic version of Parcheesi (if that's even possible).