While we were walking this morning, we wondered where John Howard stays when he holidays here. We tried to pick out the house. Apparently he never brought his minders just the family. There are some beautiful homes around the area, some of them with great views.
After our walk, we took Mum up in the wheelchair to the lookout area at the surf club. It looks along Bennetts Beach and is the area that is patrolled by the surf lifesavers. There are quite a few islands off the shore in this area. There was an ambulance driver having a coffee break while we were there. He is semi-retired and lives in Nelson Bay, which is on the other side of Port Stephens from where we are. He said they are not rushed off their feet but a lot of people have retired here so that keeps them busy enough.
We had a couple of Air Force jets go over this morning. Williamstown Airforce Base is just across Port Stephens so they probably fly over here often. They were going exceptionally fast though and everyone stopped what they were doing to look up. Cars on the road stopped as they were turning a corner and stuck their head out the window. A police car did the same. Everyone walking was standing there with their heads looking up. It was quite funny. Of course, we were doing the same.
After morning tea we drove over to some shops at Tea Gardens. There is a tea and coffee shop there that sells different sorts of tea and coffee and the paraphernalia that goes with them. It was a great shop and we bought a couple of different sorts of tea and Margie bought a portable coffee plunger and some ground coffee for David (and herself) for when they are travelling.
Lo and behold but next door was a patchwork shop! I bought some lovely pretty pink fabric with the alphabet on for a quilt I am making at the moment to go on the back. It should look good.
Next door to that was a lovely clothes shop. They had a sales rack out the front and I managed to pick up a collared t-shirt by Yarra Trail for $20, a really good buy as it was reduced from $60.
At lunch time we took the table and chairs out from under the awning and placed it on the grass under the tree next to us. There was a lovely breeze. It was lovely and relaxing. We brought our Travel Scrabble and had a game, which I managed to win.
Margie and I did a second walk, which we also did yesterday. We went up near a lake so we might drive up that way tomorrow to have a better look. The last 2 days I have done 18,000 steps so pretty happy with that.
We had our dinner at the BBQ at the caravan park and had chicken burgers. We bought some chicken mince at the butcher to support the local small business. Then after dinner we went over to Mum and Margie's unit and had a few more games of Rummikub. Bruce won 2 games, Margie won 1 and I won 1. Poor Mum. Her turn will be tonight.
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