Alma Bay, and the arrival of our visitors

Saturday 19^th August 2017

We are expecting the wind to pickup over the next few days as we get te tail end of the very strong winds being experienced down south, but for us it should only be in the 10-20 knot range and a bit of breeze will be welcome.

Our visitors for the next week or so, Carole’s brother Peter and wife Sharon will be arriving just after lunch assuming the flights from Sydney are not disrupted by the winds down there.

For our morning walk, we went to Alma Bay, at Arcadia. It is one of the best swimming beaches on the Island and the home of the Arcadia Surf Life Saving Club. Like all of the bays here, the scenery is stunning.

Native Kapok trees are in flower everywhere, adding colour to the already spectacular scenery

On the Way to Alma Bay we walked around the Eastern tip of Geoffery Bay

Alma Bay

Arcadia Surf Life Saving Club

Carole went for a swim and we then had a wander around Arcadia, before strolling back to Nelly Bay to have lunch on the boat.

Sharon sent us a text announcing that their flight arrived early due to the strong tailwinds, and that the Magnetic Island ferry had waited for their shuttle bus, so we can expect them at 1.20pm.

Once they were settled in on the boat, they had not had lunch, so we walked across the road to Scallywags Café where they got something to eat and we had a coffee. It is a great little café and the staff very entertaining.

After lunch we sat around in the cockpit of Mica, just catching up and in no time ,it was time for sundowners.

We decided to take the easy option for dinner and walked down the road to the Thai Restaurant, which had all of the internal tables booked out, but we were able to secure a very nice table out in the garden.  It was a balmy night and sitting outside was very pleasant. We all commented on how there was a distinct lack of any biting insects up here, as further south, at this time of night you would be attacked by midges, sandflies etc.

Dinner was good, and we walked back to the boat to watch the Bledisloe Cup.  What a shocker, surely the Wallabies will have a new coach soon !

It has been a very long day for Peter and Sharon, having left Newcastle at around 6 am this morning. They are looking forward to a good nights sleep.