Day 64: Tuncurry, Forster, Pacific Palms, Elizabeth Beach, Lake Wallace and a Green Cathedral

Another explore along the coast today, this time in another direction - south. Tuncurry and Forster didn't seem to have much in the way of beaches for swimming as far as we could see. There seems to be lots of opportunity for fishing and watersports, but swimming beaches were not on our route.

We pressed on to Pacific Palms further down, and came across Elizabeth Beach, which is where we stopped for a while. The boys had a fantastic time body boarding on the waves and the parents lolled on the beach having lunch and reading books, etc. It was only when Duncan ventured down to the water's edge that he noticed some large fins protruding from the water nearby. Callum and Andrew did their walking-on-water impression and exited the ocean quick smart. There are supposed to be dolphins in these waters, but the uninitiated rurals from Tassie can never be too careful...

Bluebottles also seemed to be present - as evidenced by the odd expiree on the sand - but no one got stung, which was good.

After the 'fin' experience we headed on to other waters, but the urge to get in had by this stage come and gone. We did, however, stop to look at the magnificent Wallace Lake and then on to the Green Cathedral.

The Green Cathedral is an outdoor church, complete with pews, altar, baptismal font and cross. It has an outstanding view of the lake (the congregants would be facing the view, which is directly behind the altar). I can imagine that it would be a very restful place to have a service.

The Green Cathedral, complete with half naked children in wetsuits!

On to Forster for a bit of retail therapy. Well, grocery shopping to be precise. A word of advice to those of you come this way. Woolworths is definitely the better option in NSW. Coles is very ordinary, particularly in terms of fresh produce. This was not the case in VIC, but in NSW...

I was also very pleased to find a hairdresser in the shopping centre, willing to fit me in at short notice, and got a quick trim. All my bottle colour is now gone and I am down to the 'real me'. It looks OK. For now anyway. I might chicken out and go 'fake' before I see too many people I know, when I get back to Lonnie.

Tomorrow we are expecting this blasted rain that they keep promising is coming. It was supposed to be here yesterday, then today, now tomorrow. While I am not complaining about the sunny days, I wish they would get their facts straight at the weather bureau. (We have a weather app on our iPhones that gives the forecast for the whole week ahead. It is updated everytime you go into the app, so it is apt (ha ha) to change from time to time.)

Anyway, we have been postponing schoolwork for the rainy days, so Callum and Andrew are holding their collective breath. Tomorrow may well be the day...