Things are a little warm out here

It’s hot. No – it’s bloody hot.

I’ve got halfway through blogging this trip without mentioning the weather, so allow me a little leeway.

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Sunrise on the beach, with just the birds and the fishermen

I love mornings. When I can get out of bed that is.

Even at the beach in summer you can have time and space to yourself. Even the sun puts on a great show for you.

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Fish & chips for dinner … and feeding the birds

Remember all those summer holidays when you were a kid?  It doesn’t matter where you went for your holidays, it was always fish & chips for dinner. And now it’s the same with the kids and grandkids – fish & chips for dinner by the water in summer. Of course, feeding the birds is all a part of it. And in our part of the world, that means pelicans!

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Country or the coast? Ten reasons to head inland for your summer holidays

As I sit here, surrounded by rolling hills, on an isolated place beside the Murrumbidgee River where the sound of boats is but a distant lull, I can’t help but think how lucky I am to be here.

For a few years when I was a kid we spent our summer holidays on the north coast of NSW, at Stuarts Point. It was (and still is) a beautiful spot that few people have heard of. Beside the Macleay River it’s a short stroll across the bridge (the same one I broke my arm on when I was 8) and through the sand hills (now covered with vegetation but then just sand) to one of the most beautiful, long white stretches of sand in NSW.

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