Brunswick Heads then on to Tenterfield

Our remaining time at Brunswick Heads has been great. We had lovely weather every day. We had a couple of showers on the morning we were packing up to leave but still managed to get packed up dry.
Sue and Terry stayed until Sunday 25th August and the boys went fishing every day. They didn't do too good though but everyone else was in the same boat. There just weren't many legal size fish to be caught. They did catch another crab though even though it had thrown its nippers.

Terry and Ray fishing

Terry and Ray had crab for afternoon tea

There was a beautiful full moon on 21st August which looked great over the river

Full moon rising

Each afternoon we enjoyed afternoon refreshments sitting on the "poop deck", which is really the cement slab on top of the storm water pit

Ray, Maura, Sue and Terry

Terry, Ray, Maura and Sue on the poop deck

We enjoyed a flathead and bream lunch on the day before Sue and Terry left. It was a combination of all of the fish caught so at least we got one meal out of it.

Meagan(my niece) came down from Brisbane for lunch on the Tuesday. She brought some lovely salads and sour dough bread. Ray went and got some prawns and we had a veritable feast for lunch. Lee was there too so I got some photos of all of us together.

Maura, Ray, Lee and Meagan

Lee and Meagan

 

Visiting turtle

While she was there the turtle came for a visit so Meagan was able to get some good photos.

We have had a few great lunches out. A couple of meals at Billinudgel pub, lunch at Ocean Shores Country Club and lunch at Brunswick Hotel.

The view coming out the front door of Ocean Shores Country Club

We left Brunswick Heads for Tenterfield on Tuesday 3rd September, stopping at Drake Hotel for lunch on Lee's recommendation. Lovely meal and a great old pub with lots of historic paraphernalia on the walls from the days when Drake had a gold mine.

Arrived in Tenterfield about 2pm and it is quite a bit cooler on this side of the Great Dividing Range. It is supposed to get down to 2 degrees overnight. Thank God for the diesel heater.

Today we went for a drive up to Mount Mackenzie where you can see over the town of Tenterfield and also over the northern ranges.

Overlooking Tenterfield from Mount Mackenzie Lookout

Maura at Lookout

Ray at Lookout

 

Tenterfield is in the New England region of NSW at the intersection of the New England and Bruxner Highways. The town was gazetted in 1851 and gold was discovered nearby in Drake in 1858. The main industries are beef cattle breeding and superfine wool production.

Entertainer Peter Allen was born and raised in Tenterfield where he lived with his grandfather George Woolnough who was a saddler and owned the Tenterfield Saddlery, the subject of Allen's song "Tenterfield Saddler". Next we move on to Goondiwindi so see you next blog.