It’s Sunday; so it was a lazy start to the day as we did not appear for breakfast until just before 09.00. Lynda slaved over a hot cooker and produced a magnificent Full English Breakfast consisting of eggs, bacon, sausage, mushrooms, tomatoes and toast, which we all enjoyed immensely. After breakfast we headed out to Robina and a large shopping complex not too far from where Ray & Lynda live. Our main reason for going was to visit a book shop in order to get a picture book of Sydney as we failed to buy one whilst we were there. As we were about 1000kms North of Sydney, we were not that hopeful of getting one, but it was worth a try. We did manage to get hold of one and also another for the Gold Coast, the area were we are at present.
From the shopping centre we made our way to a huge open market that sold just about everything you could ever want. First up was a banana shake and meat pie for lunch, before wandering amongst the endless stalls, where I bought a bushman’s hat.
Out here they have some incredible raffles, rather like the Readers Digest ones back home, where there is a very valuable main prize and a few lesser ones. One of the raffles Ray and Lynda had through the post was for a refurbished block of flats that was supposedly valued at A$3.1Million and was just up the road from where the market was. You could actually go round the flats as they came fully furnished and with all the white goods as well as a swimming pool. We decided to pop along and see the property and whist we were there bought 4 tickets between us. The draw is next month, so when we win, we will have to come back out to collect our prize.
From the prize flat we headed out to the Spit, just to the North of Surfers Paradise and took a walk along the beach and breakwater. Today the seas looked grey and sombre as did the clouds in the sky. Even the beach looked unhappy compared to how it looked just a couple od days ago.
By now it was getting a little breezy and the black clouds were gathering, threatening rain. On the way back to the highway we passed the Versace Hotel where the celebrities stay in the TV programme ‘I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here’. That had to be a Kodak moment.
The rainclouds were starting to look very ominous so we decided to take a drive through Surfers Paradise and head for home before it started raining too hard. Just as we were leaving Surfers it started to pour down, so we had made the right decision not to head off hiking elsewhere.
This evening we ate out at an excellent Indian restaurant just 10 minutes drive from Ray & Lynda’s house.
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