Loub took us away from the madness of Bondi at the weekend to the quieter beach resort of Avoca up the East coast. It is a Facer family favourite and we stayed at their regular haunt of Riley’s B&B; a stunning place set in beautiful grounds and run by the lovely Glenice & Quentin Riley. Their large veranda was a great place to sit and enjoy the home baked biscuits and watch the family of kookaburras who lived in the surrounding trees.
Being typical Brits we didn’t let the dark storm clouds shift us from the beach and after eating our sarnies in a light shower we then proceeded to body board (badly) in the heavy rain. We had a great dinner at the Funky Kitchen before an earlyish night in preparation for our early start…I had told Quentin I enjoyed swimming, so at 6.30am we were all jumping off rocks into the sea and swimming back to the beach. I borrowed a pair of goggles and began to regret it when several blue bottles and some jellyfish passed by. We all survived however and were very proud of our achievements.
On the drive back to Sydney we visited lots of the local sights, ate so much delicious food that I could hardly move, visited look out points and saw some (hard to identify) aboriginal carvings. It was a great weekend and we’re very grateful to Loub and Monty (the jeep) for getting us there and back safely.
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3 comments so far
February 25th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Some lovely pictures on this Blog, I like the one of Helen & Loub sitting on the ‘dock of the bay’looking like 2/3rds of Charlies Angels & also the bearded, bespectacled, Bamber Gascoigne!! The B&B looks lovely, we’ll go there NEXT time??
February 26th, 2009 at 12:03 am
It’s so good having you back on the blog Mum x
March 11th, 2009 at 4:22 am
love the pics, esp varicose vein tree! Hope all is well in Fiji, looking forward to having you back in the country soon x
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