Rob and Annette's Visit

Rob and Annette are some friends that we met 10 years ago in Sydney while Fay was working at Qantas. They came to visit us on their way to New Zealand for a couple of days of rest. They were lucky that the weather was bad as we couldn't take them up Mt Warning, or paddling in the creek. However they did have to endure walking to the Byron Lighthouse from the main beach and walking to salt a couple of times.

We also managed to eat quite a lot of pretty good food. The Thai in Kingscliff has picked up again, the Choux Box cafe was on it's game, the Salt Bar had excellent pub grub and the Rock Salt Pizzeria served some great pizzas.

So we have some unfinished business with Rob and Annette and we'll have to try and get them back here to try the new Italian in Kingscliff and the new Fins restaurant at Salt.

Comedy Night

We went to our second comedy night at the Salt Bar. At $6 entry you can't go too far wrong. It was actually great.

We decided to cycle down there as it's only 2.5km and we didn't feel like walking. However when we got the the bridge about 500m up the road they were closing it to do some test drilling for the new pedestrian and cycle bridge. We got chatting to the workmen and told them we were heading for the pub and asked whether the bridge would be open later that night.

When we cycled home and approached the bridge, they were waiting for us and started to say that we need to do a breath test before we could cross. We had a laugh and they escorted us across to many knowing smiles from all. We've got some good people up here.

4 Months to the Half

I'm going to attempt the Geelong Half Ironman on February 10 next year. I need to get a goal up so that I keep up the training. Another reason for choosing Geelong is that it seems I'll be spending quite a bit of time down there for work from November to April.

We've been having some big storms up here. Fantastic light shows and heavy rain. We even had some hail last Saturday; however we were spared the big one that hit nearby Lismore in the hills. They had extensive damage.

Fay is slowly getting closer to taking up her job. The main issues are with vaccinations.