Getting used to the quiet here & catching up on some sleep again . We get up and check out our view of Mt Warning .
Today we’re heading off to Fingal Beach to have a look , as we’ve never been here in all our visits to the Gold Coast . It was only about 30 klms away , so didn’t take too long to get there . Pulling up at the carpark beside the surf club , we wandered down to the beach , doing the hot sand shuffle till we got to the wet sand . There’s a good stretch of white sand going all the way up to the Tweed River entrance and some form of ship loading facility ??? maybe sand ???? who knows !!
The beach also went further south to the headland , which also has the lighthouse and the Giants Causeway .
Cook Island is also close to the coastline .
The walk along the beach also finished our drive back to the east coast as we dipped our toes in the Pacific Ocean .
There were a few BlueBottles washed up on the beach - they’re called Blue Bottles for a reason .
Heading back to the ute , we checked out some of the houses , many have been renovated or knocked down & rebuilt . It’s a great location , ocean one side and the Tweed River on the other .
We found our way up to the lighthouse and took lunch with us , finding a seat under some of the pandanus trees . It was hot away from the breeze , but fortunately it kept us cool as we ate lunch . We also had company for lunch - a pod of about 30 dolphins decided to keep us amused swimming back & forth in front of us .
Lunch complete , we found a bearded dragon on the way down to Giants Causeway .
The Giants Causeway is a part of the headland that has nearly been cut off . It was formed when lava from the volcano cooled slowly , forming these basalt columns . The volcano , by the way was centred at Mt Warning - that is the remnant core of the volcano !!
Walking around the headland , we checked out the view over Dreamtime Beach towards Kingscliff , before having a look at one of the most insignificant lighthouses we’ve seen
Making our way back home , we looped around to Terranora and went down the other side of the Tweed River back to Murwillumbah . We found a nice lookout over the river and out to the ocean .
That’s it for today , here’s a map link :-https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rCMfFa2_XsnyFhJ07hEbVB9Cbps&usp=sharing
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