Blogs from Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania
January 9th 2012
Well it's now 2012 and time for another adventure. After 29 years of service I have been made redundant from my role at NAB so what better way to start 2012 than by going on a family holiday ! We are off to Asia to see Malaysia and Thailand retracing some steps from our 2009 holiday but including a stay in Chiang Mai as well. All up 15 days of travelling in 3 destinations being Kuala Lumpur, Phuket and Chiang Mai. Hopefully we have good weather and create some great memories and some happy snaps.... read more
Packed and ready to go
Published: December 21st 2010Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Tweed HeadsDecember 21st 2010
Well we are packed and ready to go on our big trip. Hopefully a good nights sleep and a pickup arranged for 9AM tomorrow to take us to Brisbane Airport for the VAustralia Flight VA7 to Los Angeles departing at 12PM (QLD Time).... read more
Back in New South Wales
Published: October 6th 2009Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Tweed Heads
October 6th 2009
We are staying overnight at Tweed Heads and are on daylight saving, which Queensland doesn't do. We survived the drive down the Bruce Highway and over the Gateway Bridge, (yikes!), called into a shop I love in Brisbane, (Lily G) and then drove on to the Gold Coast. From Bundaberg we have been thrilled to see the jacaranda in flower all down the coast and there were many beautiful flowering trees in Brisbane. Perhaps we'll actually see them in Grafton, we're always a week or so early. We'll be home to see Sydney putting on it's November jacaranda cloak too, so we're really being rewarded this year. Surfers Paradise is getting ready for the big car race which snakes through the town, I think this weekend. We seem to be there the same time each year ... read more
Camping and fishing trip
Published: September 21st 2009Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Tweed Heads
September 21st 2009
On Friday, Dad got home at about 16:00 and we got all of the camping things out and packed them into bags and boxes. We packed the car up and set off down to New South Wales. We got stuck in a bit of a traffic jam so came off the highway at Nerang and got pizza for dinner. We had a ham and mushroom pizza and then we tried a dessert pizza. It was a pizza base with chocolate on it and dusted with icing sugar. It was quite nice. We got back onto the highway and drove the rest of the way to Hastings Point and the campsite. When we got there, we checkd in at reception and then set up our tents in the dark. We were on plot number 6, which was ... read more
D-Day -1
Published: September 1st 2009Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Tweed Heads » North Tumbulgum
September 1st 2009
24 hours to run - limo organised, cat kennelled, laptop computer hired and tested, fingers crossed!!! Hope you all can keep up with us - planning to write daily. take care - see you in October Chesty... read more
June 13th 2009
Day 48 - Tweed Heads to Tamborine Mountain Up we get with a couple of different missions in mind this morning, sorting the fridge out and sorting our return flights out! The flight organisation proves real easy, it seems that we have one free of charge change and now that we’ve cancelled the originally booked dates we’re ok to re-book whenever we want to. We need to organise with Mum and Dad Kettle when they’ll be able to get out here and we’re also going to have a chat with the visa people and see if it’s possible for us to go to NZ and then return to Oz before we finally head home. We’ve got a multi entry visa so we’re now thinking that we might change our plans for the final sections of our ... read more
No point getting the hump
Published: June 16th 2009Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Tweed Heads
June 12th 2009
Day 47 - Tweed Heads and Surfers Paradise Blimey it was a cold night last night! It makes us think what we’ll do when we’ve got no power and therefore no little electric fan heater!! Don the flannelette pj’s again I suppose and get another blanket! The Big 4 site at Tweed Heads is pleasant enough with friendly and helpful staff but on initial inspection the site itself doesn’t pull many punches other than the ones flying over your head late at night and early in the morning! There is a billabong though so we’ll try and explore any wildlife tomorrow before we pack up and leave. Today started with a whale watching cruise with the ‘Aquatic Blue’ team of Tony, Carol and Orianna. We caught the boat from the Tweed Heads and Coolangatta Gold Club ... read more
This is autumn? We'll take it.
Published: April 27th 2009Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Tweed Heads
April 27th 2009
The weather lately (now that the rain has stopped) has been great. It's been around 30 degrees and sunny, not that humid, and it getting a bit cooler at night, it has even hit down to 13 degrees. Brrrrr! If this is Autumn (still can't stop saying Fall and then people look at you strangely here), we will take it, definately! After another couple weeks of working for Brett and the skatepark is pretty much done. He is on his last 2 days at the moment, and then we are heading back to Byron Bay for a couple weeks of chilling out and surfing before we head to the next one.... but more about that later. Don't like to think about work to soon... We were very excited to see some familiar faces arrive last week; ... read more
April 8th 2009
Wel, not much to report the last couple weeks, but thought we would put a few pics up. Brett's been working pretty much 6 days a week, and is about week and half or so away from finishing the skatepark. I have been doing some freelance work, and checking things out, so we haven't been up to alot other than that. We did go to Byron Bay for a day which is only about 40 minutes south of us, and it was so nice and sunny and beautiful down there, can't wait to get back there for a while. Even saw Jack Johnson coming in from a surf session at the Pass. Our quiet little caravan park has turned into a zoo since it is the easter long weekend. Everyone seems to take the following week ... read more
March 21st 2009
We made the aprox 900km drive up from Wollongong to Tweed Heads, our home for the next while as Brett builds a skatepark up this way, over 2 days. We stopped about 2/3 of the way up just past Coffs Harbour at Corindi Beach. And for a change, it was sunny and warm in this area! Not sure why but we always seem to hit this area when it seems to be flooding and pouring rain. We had missed the floods and rains this time by a few weeks thankfully. Our spot in Tweed Heads is in a nice little caravan park with a pool and we are right in front of a billabong (a.k.a. pond) where there are ducks and fish jumping. The water is quite brown at the moment in the tidal pond, because ... read more
