It’s been a while since I posted any riverside walk photos. Most of you will know that it’s just gone 7 weeks post-op for a left total knee replacement. I have done a few walks along our local river but last weekend we took a 30 minute drive south to a usually sleepy place which is currently packed with summer tourist. It was a good road test for the knee. I just needed a cushion between my knee and the car door for unexpected bendy roads. 🙂 Perhaps this post could be archived under 🦋 Travel + Retirement but this was not one of those trips.

The town of Laurieton was built at the base of North Brother Mountain. Although there’s no actual river there, there’s plenty of waterways, paths and small lakes off the coastline. We mostly visited a few quaint shops, an over stuffed antique shop and a general tour of the main township which is not very big. We concluded the trip with lunch at the Bowling Club at North Haven on the way back up the coast. A beautiful day and I slept well that night.

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After my morning pool therapy, exercises and massage, we headed out for a walk along the river. I think I was too fast for Norm.

There was a lot activity on the river with cruise boats, sea planes and the port authorities boat as well as a few smaller boats darting about.

The hot weather brought quite a few people to fish and walk along the jetty.

Perhaps it was the sea plane coming into his parking spot. Or, was it this fisherman who caught the plane? 😉 We didn’t take the full route. I didn’t want to over do it. We had a Gelato at the Blue Cow before heading home. Of course.

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This week’s Riverside walk revealed a calm low tide.

There are very few boats out during low tide. No fisherpeople either.

Sand masses on both sides of the river, and down the middle, were exposed.

At the end of the Riverwalk, Town Beach was showing off its low tide beauty with varying wetness of the sand and a gentle surf. Not many surfers either.

On the return walk, the caravan park was filled with a variety of caravans, trailers, and motor homes. Ladies were in town this week as part of a promotion and fundraiser for the McGrath Foundation. https://www.facebook.com/rollingsoloaustralia/

Most of the ladies were dressed in pink and flying pink flags. The holiday park was mostly occupied by solo traveling ladies. I couldn’t resist sharing this photo of a couple holiday trailers.

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Yesterday we needed to do some urgent work in the garden so we went for our walk a little later than usual. It was extremely hot, no breeze and the air was stifling. There weren’t many people about either. Very few of the usual cruise boats were anchored at the dock because most were out on lunchtime cruises.

Here we watched one of the boats returning from upriver. By the time we arrived at the fishing wharf (top right) …

it was cruising towards us. Being low tide, the craft was meticulously steered close to shore to avoid the sand bar that is almost exposed in parts. (top left corner) Passengers waved, took photos, and toasted us from the upper deck.

As it passed, we headed to the other side of the wharf and returned to the path by way of another short low bridge. The last photo I took was of the cruise boat heading back to the dock.

It was only when I downloaded the photos to my computer did I noticed the romantic couple in the lower foreground. How sweet.

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Over the weekend we decided to start our river walk where the various river cruise boats dock. This was about where we did the turn around at the Blue Cow Gelato shop last time. https://riversidepeace.com/2023/10/16/river-walk/ Here we were put on a rare show by a large black bird. I think it’s a Cormorant variety. A reader may know.

From there we followed the colourful graffiti rocks that leads you along the breakwall of collage of messages, tributes and memories from visitors and locals.

Occaisionally we spotted a lone dophin which was obviously have breakfast but we kept missing the spot where it might surface when aiming the phone camera.

Once we reached almost the end of the breakwall we used the cement footpaths for the turn around point where we also briefly stopped to view Town Beach.

On the way back we stop for a coffee. Little Shack is a very popular place at he start of the breakwall walk. I love the sign post out front.

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On a 27c/80.6F day last week, we took a walk along a section of the Hastings River.

We started at the Marina where we parked our car.

We walked all the way to Blue Cow Gelato where we indulged then retraced our steps back to the car.

It took us a slow 45 minutes and just enjoyed the breeze and the scenery.

It’s a long river and is accessible from most places up and down the river except where large restaurants, apartment buildings, and houses have private access only.

Because the majority of the public footpaths are concreted and flat, walking is usually easy for our dodgy knees. We hope to do more of these walks while I wait for my knee surgery in late November and again once I’m more mobile.

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