Of Wings and Whispers

[drron]

Well juddles we had better have another Sunshine Coast get together and you can regale mrsdrron with tales of wonderful Medellin.I would like to visit some time.

Now a walk along Riverside Park on a sunny sunday.Good for bird watching-of the feathered kind.

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Now there had been many people walking around seemingly aimlessly looking at their supposedly smart phones.it was at this point I heard a man talking loudly.I turned around and presumably a father with his 2 under 10 daughters looking at their phones.He yelled out-"there are 3 Pokémon in front of that man."
I turned around and this is what I saw-

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So there you have it.Pokemon are either geese who have perfected the ability to look different to some individuals or you are a bit of a goose for being taken in by the Pokémon craze.
So one final bird-

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Now the one thing you can do if you are for some reason stuck in Kempsey is to go to the neaerby coast.Unfortunately of the 8 weekends I was there I was on call for 6.But I did get away to Port Macquarie and Crescent head so those will be coming next.

 

[drron]

Mrsdrron flew down to stay a week.Met her mobile office one Friday afternoon in Port Macquarie-

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We stayed the weekend at Rydges Port Macquarie.The room-

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The view-

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We enjoyed the stay.Great staff and a very good location.But more importantly a great place to view the sunset-

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[drron]

By now you must expect more of the sunset-

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Yes a drone.Made sure we had the curtains closed in the morning!

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[drron]

So on Saturday we first went for a walk.A lot of different birds-

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I wonder why they call that pelican island-

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[drron]

Some beach and ocean scenes-

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Then went for a drive-

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Back at the hotel saw the seaplane land and come in-

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Ended the day with a very pleasant drinks with irv and irv+1 before walking to dinner at Mekong.OK but certainly not great Asian food.

 

[drron]

Sunday we got up late,visited a couple of markets and ended up at Cassegrain Vineyard for lunch.We had been many years ago and enjoyed it but the meal was disappointing.Mrsdrron had overcooked garlic prawns and I had a medium rare steak which was really medium but tough and sinewy.

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Desserts were reasonable-

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The next day we went to the Kempsey services club and had the same main courses-they were much better than at Cassegrain.I would not recommend it.
Next up-Crescent Head.

 

[drron]

Have been forced to relearn how to post photos.Google and Windows 10 are not letting me get access to Picasaweb though mrsdrron can still get it on her Windows 7 machine.So might be a few days before posting recommences.
On the good news side the upgrade fairy is working late tonight and has just told mrsdrron that we are going to be forced into the F cabin to LAX.

 

[Pushka]

On the good news side the upgrade fairy is working late tonight and has just told mrsdrron that we are going to be forced into the F cabin to LAX.

That damn upgrade fairy! Thanks for taking one for the team.

 

[drron]

Well 24 hours and I have worked out at least 1 method on Flickr I hope.So this should be pics of our meal at Kempsey RSL that was exactly the same as lunch at cassegrain but so much better.-

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[drron]

We did a little journey when mrsdrron was down in Kempsey.First Stewart point where mrsdrron went as a youngster.Not much there-

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Our family holidays were not too far away at South West Rocks.Trial bay hasn't changed-

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But the rest sure has.Didn't recognise anything.

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Had lunch at the Sea Breeze hotel-

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Mrsdrron had the pork belly I the pasta.Pretty good too.

 

[Pushka]

Seem to have got the photos sorted nicely.

 

[JohnM]

BP scanned.

 

[drron]

So now to Crescent Head.Not a bad coastal village and I wouldn't mind if they put me up here.these photos are after the north coast low and a freak wave hit the place.i do have some before photos somewhere but haven't found them yet.Lots of pelicans and surfers-

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[drron]

So past the golf course and up to the headland-

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[drron]

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Erosion-

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[drron]

Now to more of the damage from a huge wave that hit just after dark.estimates of it's height range from 6-12 metres.

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Further up the creek life goes on as usual-

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That last photo shows that I have not completely worked out Flickr.Sometimes it will only let me embed a picture of it's choice of sizing not mine.

 

[drron]

The last of Crescent head.Because of the photo troubles the next post will be our first flight.

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[drron]

So we are on our way.0900 start for the limo to BNE.We like a lot of lounge time.

QF 525.BNE-SYD. ETD-1225. Push back-1231. Take off-1241. Seats 3A,C.
ETA-1400. Touch down-1355. At gate-1405.
Great FA in the J cabin today and mrsdrron was happy with the white wine being a Shaw and Smith SB.I was happy with the St.Hallets shiraz.
Food though was a problem for mrs drron.3 choices for lunch.A spicy red lentil soup,a spicy Vietnamese beef salad or ham and cheese on toast which she had.Burnt toast,cheese not melted,lashings og spicy chutney making the toast soggy meant no lunch apart from the curiously titled light orange cake.It was as dense as could be and very hard to get your spoon into it.I had the Vietnamese salad which was good for me.

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As usual our bags in the second half.QF priority tags work again!A bit of a wait for the Tbus but in our room at Rydges at 1500.Airport view-

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[Pushka]

Love the pork sliders at Rydges eaten on anticipation of holidays

 

[ellen10]

Signed in and looking forward to another great trip report.