Activities, hobbies, photos. Wherever retirement takes us.
oops. A little blurred but you can see that I’m making Christmas cards. I’m also making January Birthday cards.
Some finished. Others I need more craft material. Our local craft store has closed temporary because their stock is sitting on the wharf in Sydney where the dock workers are having a strike. Ebay may be my only hope to finish them in time for Christmas mail out.
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Some not so great and some tougher memories of 2020.
Drought
Water restrictions
Broken pipes
Broken garden tools
New plantings during Covid19 lockdown
New plans
Painting
Compost making
Finding new hobbies through a Covid19 winter
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It’s whale season here on the mid-north coast of New South Wales, Australia. Whales head north to warmer waters from the Antarctic to breed and give birth. Just a few days ago, we were taking the ocean road to head home the long way when I spotted a whale breaching of the coast. We parked the car at one of the lookouts and enjoyed the view. Unfortunately, we left our camera at home. Today we set off with the right equipment but sadly they were 15 to 20 kilometres off-shore. Even the long distance lens didn’t help. We met a gentleman who is one of the official whale counters who told us that 396 whales passed the headland and just a couple of kilometres off the coastline yesterday. Sadly, these are the best of 50 photos we took today.
Because you have read this far, I shall reward you with a few photos taken back in June 2016 – three years before we moved here. We had brought my dad up here from Sydney for a holiday. The whale watching cruise was the highlight of his trip. These whales came within 20 feet of the boat with one coming up alongside the boat to check out the humans.
Note: Boat owners are not allowed to approach whales but sometimes the whales come to the boat so engines are switched off to wait for the whales to move on.
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Highs of the day.
An astounding 490 metres above sea level.
A beautiful Sunny Sunday.
From the North Brother we could see the South and Middle Brother Mountains.
We were down there last week taking a drive.
Who would believe such a beautiful lookout is situated just 30 minutes south of home.
The canal to the Pacific Ocean
Looking up the coast.
Mountains to the north.
Queens Lake north of Laurieton.
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With some COVID-19 restrictions lifted, a drive to the lake and coast was the best thing we could have done. Better still, all this is just 15-20 minutes from our front door.
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Retirement
Riverside Peace 
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