JOURNAL 20th JULY 2020

Its been nearly a month since my last entry, and once again, I was gently reminded by a lovely young lady, who lives in England ( Cambridge I’m sure ), to get my butt into gear and post something. You know who you are....just as well you’re family....and loved! 🥰🥰

As we are all still trying to cope with this bloody virus, there’s not really much to blog about as we are not travelling anywhere. Our day to day, seems to go really quick, but nothing to write home about! 🤪

But....as it was such a lovely day, we got in the car and drove about 15 minutes south to Fingal Heads.

Fingal, (as we all all call it) is a small coastal village on the Tasman Sea, about 5 km south of the New South Wales/ Queensland border, with a population of approx 600.

The headland and the small off-shore Island,  (Cook Island), were first sighted by James Cook on the 16th May 1770.

From the car park, you walk a sandy path through lovely shady trees to the stairs up to the headland and lighthouse.

The lighthouse is automated, like most are now. 

Cook Island.  Captain cook charted the coastline of the Island, but made no attempt at settlement. He then continued sailing north and named two nearby landmarks, Mount Warning....

Which is surrounded by cane fields, and sometimes called the ‘sleeping witch’ as that’s what it looks like.....a sleeping witches head with a big nose...laying on her back. (Nose, lip, chin)....   It is part of the United Nations world heritage listed Gondwana Rainforests of Australia. 

You can also be the first person in Australia to see the sun rise if you fancy the hike up the mountain. 

And the sunset over the mountain is just a beautiful. 

 

And Point Danger...after he was nearly shipwrecked. 

There’s nothing left of this lighthouse keepers cottage except a concrete slab.

From that slab footprint, you can see just how tiny that house was! How it housed 13 people I don’t know!

We thought we may have been able to see whales go past Cook Island today, as it’s a very popular place to sight them, but unfortunately we didn’t. 

These lovely little paper flowers are scattered around all over the head land.

This view is looking south towards Kingscliff...

And this is looking North towards Tweed Heads and the headland of Point Danger, which is the border of NSW/QLD.

It’s a popular surfing spot too.

And the local Rainbow Lorikeets having a feed.

Shame we didn’t see the whales, but it was just so lovely to get out and breath in that lovely sea air once again. 

Take care everyone. Xxxxxx