Beaches

Here on the southern Gold Coast, Queensland, we’ve recently had lots of rain and storms. 

This has flushed tonnes of debris out of our local waterway, Currumbin Creek, onto the nearby beach.  Most of this debris is wood that ranges in size from small twigs to entire tree trunks.  Beach visitors have been having a great time using this as building material for beach sculptures! 

Bribie Island is a sand-barrier island that runs for over thirty kilometres south from Caloundra, where I’m staying.

The southern end of the island is quite developed, but the northern end near Caloundra is natural and wild, so it’s an attractive place to visit as a contrast with the highly urban development of Caloundra.

I like long walks on beaches, and there’s a long beach that runs north from Moffat Beach on the Caloundra Headland, near to where I’m staying. 

Apart from the general beauty of the beach, there’s commonly some interesting and unusual wildlife to be seen here.For this particular walk some small pelagic animals that I rarely, if ever, see had been blown in by the wind.

We are staying at the northern end of Alexandra Headland, on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.

The southern end of Alexandra Headland leads into Mooloolaba Beach and then on to Mooloolaba.  Mooloolaba is exclusively a tourist destination, and a popular one.  It has numerous restaurants, coffee shops, and tourist trinket shops, with a nicely developed esplanade area.

   We’re on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, while waiting out the coronavirus restrictions. 

Since our initial stay at Kings Beach, Caloundra, we’ve spent the last four months at nearby Alexandra Headland.  It’s another nice place to be while we can’t travel.  

When the onshore wind picks up Happy Valley at Caloundra become a popular place for kite surfers. Kings beach, where we are staying while we see out the corona virus lockdown, is just around the corner from Happy Valley.  

The boardwalk which runs along the shore at Happy Valley is one of our favourite walks, so I usually get to see the kite surfers when they’re in action. 

Coronavirus has brought our travelling to a halt! 

We have decided to come "home" (whatever that means) to the Sunshine Coast in Queensland until this blows over.  We are in Caloundra for a few weeks until we move to a slightly longer-term situation at Alexander Headland, where we will wait to see what happens in the next several months.

We are currently house-sitting a little apartment and a cat in Aguadulce, in southern Spain.  It’s a nice long house-sit (two months) so there's plenty of time to settle in and really get to know the area.  Aguadulce is primarily a tourist town that relies on its long and wide beaches and calm clear Mediterranean water to attract vast summer crowds from northern Europe, the United Kingdom, and Russia.  

I went for a swim at Augusta’s most popular swimming beach this afternoon, at Davies Road in Flinders Bay. 

Like all the coastline around here in the south-west of Western Australia, it’s a very beautiful spot. The weather here seems to be endlessly perfect, too, with mostly warm windless days and clear blue skies while we’ve been here, as it was today – perfect for swimming and admiring the scenery!

My house-sit in Canberra includes the occasional house-sit at the house-owner family’s beach house at Tuross Head, on the adjacent coastline.  Tuross Head is a small coastal village on the south coast of New South Wales on the beautiful east coast of Australia, about 270 kilometres south of Sydney.  Because it’s on the closest adjacent coast to Canberra, it's a popular place for Canberrans’ beach houses.