On Monday, I was able to go out for lunch again with the ladies from the aquafit class. There were six of us at the sports club, enjoying some more eating and chatting. One of the ladies, Cheryl, and I stayed on longer than the others and were able to have a nice private chat, getting to know each other better. I will look forward to coming here again so I can meet up with the gals again. On Wednesday, a woman in the class asked me if she was hearing an American accent when I talked. I told her 'no' and then she said it must be Canadian then. When I said 'yes', she told me that she should have known that since she has been married to a Canadian for 52 years. She then said that she was going to have to tell her husband that she had committed the cardinal sin (by asking me if I was American). We had a bit of a laugh about that. :-)
Since Dad worked evenings this week to do the practical training, we were able to go out in the afternoons on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. On Tuesday, we went for a short drive to the Hunter Wetlands National Park. I had seen online a couple of walks that I thought would be enjoyable to do. Alas, we couldn't seem to find exactly where this Riverside Park was that was talked about on the Park website. We drove around for ages trying to find it. Finally, we stopped at one place and checked out their map and were able to find out exactly where it started. It was basically a walk along the river, which we took. Here are` some of the photos of our walk...............
Wednesday afternoon, we went to the Hunter Region Botanic Gardens. We love walking out in nature and I thought that it would be a lovely place to walk in. Well.........it was a lovely place to walk in being a very natural place full of lovely plants, trees and flowers. However...........it was FULL of mosquitoes and they really like our blood, it seems, especially Dad's. :-) So, although we really enjoyed walking around the gardens, we had to walk fast and consistently swat at the mosquitoes. We heard rustling in the woods a few times, but never saw what were making these sounds. We saw a few birds and butterflies and dragonflies. Here are some photos of what we saw along the way - some of the photos had to be taken really quickly as once we stopped even for a second, a bunch of mosquitoes would land on us.
On Thursday, we went for a walk along 'Bathers Way' which is a path which goes along the edge of the ocean. We love being outside and walking, and being beside the ocean is an added bonus - water is so relaxing and the waves were amazing that day. Here are some photos of that day......
We saw all these gulls standing on one leg and couldn't believe that there were so many one-legged seagulls - it turns out that they were just standing that way for some reason - as soon as I started walking towards them, they put their other leg down and walked away
I have no idea what kind of bird this is, but I thought it was an interesting look :-)
A big coal cargo ship which entered the harbour while we were on our walk
We headed home to Hervey Bay early Friday morning and were very happy to be back home (if only for a day and a half). Last night, we went over to Robyn and Geoff's for dinner. Robyn made us a delicious roast lamb dinner (can never get too much lamb :-) It was great to catch up with our friends - Geoff said that we are away so much we are soon going to need formal introductions to them. :-)
We drove to Brisbane this morning and are staying at The Hub which is where we have stayed twice before. Even though it's a two bedroom unit, it's quite small overall. But, there is a nice couch set, a desk for Dad to work at and a nice dining room table to eat at. I really like the location of The Hub as it's only a fifteen minute walk to the local pool and a ten minute walk to the river and downtown. Dad is teaching at a nearby hotel which is only about a ten minute drive from here.
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