Horseshoe Bay 5-10-12 to 8-10-12

This is a very pretty spot,with 2 bays very close to our caravan park and several others within walking distance.

Horseshoe Bay is on the North side of the peninsula and Gray’s Bay is on the west.  This results in 2 quite different beaches, Gray’s bay is sheltered and the sea is flat, Horseshoe Bay has small waves and is the most popular of the 2 beaches.  Hehe, the waves are very small, but it makes it possible for children to use their boogy boards for some fun.  The 4 of us can’t help thinking about our grand children and how much they would love it here (and other places we have seen).  Our water babes would have a ball and the beaches are quite children friendly.  There is a life guard at Horseshoe bay until the end of the school holidays, but thankfully he looks bored out of his brain since there is nothing to do.  The swimming season will end on all of these beaches very soon, the stinger season is rapidly approaching and only people prepared to take a risk or people covered in stinger suits will go in the water (irukandji and box jellyfish).

Michael and Tony have been in for a swim every day and thoroughly enjoyed themselves, we have all walked on the beaches and ventured up onto the lookout over the bay, which initially looked very difficult, but was not so bad, the path being very well planned and winding it’s way up.  Tony and Jen walked across into another little bay where it is theorised that Gina Reinhart owns one of the properties.  The scenery was fantastic.

We have wandered down to the little cafe on the corner where the others had the boring usual (coffee, coke) and I had a berry breeze (mixture of berries and berry sorbet)  YUM.

On Sunday the wind died down, what a pity that it hadn’t happened earlier as this is our last day.  This morning we walked to  the monthly market, about 2 km away, love these although I rarely buy anything – am tempted by heaps of stuff though, but do not have the room to put it in the car.  Tony told us that we had to walk to  the market this morning (2.5 km) since we were putting on weight. When we were there, he had a bacon and egg sandwich (he had already had breakfast), he has said that he will miss out on lunch.  Tony is very fond of bacon and egg sandwiches and has them almost every time we stop for a coffee at morning tea time.  This one was apparently pretty good since it was cheap – cooked at the Rotary tent.

Michael and Jen have been badly bitten by something at Wunjunga and are now covered in bites and itching badly, Michael in particular.  We think it must have been no-see-ums, since we have no idea what they were bitten by.

I bought a pineapple, rockmelon and some bananas in Bowen, the pineapple in particular was delicious, running with juice.  Tony and Michael and me have enjoyed bananas and custard for dessert.  (Tony introduced M and me to long-life custard, not as good as mine but an OK substitute out here).

We leave tomorrow to head for the Burdekin Dam and then Emerald where I hope to do a little fossicking for gemstones (in a fossicking park where thousands have gone before me, any hope do you think?).