Last day of our lovely break

We woke to a clear blue sky and bright sunshine.  It started off very cool (8degC) but warmed up to a lovely 17deg.  Daylight saving ended at 2am this morning so we are still adjusting to the change in time and slept in.  We had a lazy breakfast, trying to persuade Nathan that quite possibly buying an antique from the antique shop might be a rather expensive souvenir of our holiday.  Eventually he decided to have a look for something else so he and Peter went off to Blackheath and Nathan came back with a book of Australian native animals, birds and reptiles.  A much better option, I think :)

We had a long walk through the caravan park and down to a little creek running along the bottom.  It is lined with beautiful tree ferns of all sizes.

After that we wandered over to the park across the road.  There were some very pretty trees with autumn foliage there, some of them small

And some of them very large.

It was really nice sitting in the sun in the park too.  And in one section  there was a group of pretty ferns, about 2 ft high and about 3ft across.  They were really nice.

As we were leaving we saw that a bottlebrush tree actually had second flush of blooms.  Smaller than the first flush but a bright splash of colour.

I had expected that we'd see more autumn colour than we have.  In fact the best we've seen has been in the caravan park and the park across the road.  As we were walking back to the caravan we noticed that some of the trees that we photographed yesterday have actually improved their colour in the last 24 hours.

We had our lunch and sat in our chairs outside the caravan, intending to go and visit the gardens later on.  But it was so nice sitting there enjoying the sun that we felt too lazy to go anywhere.  Nathan was reading his new book, Peter was looking at his book of Australian birds and I was doing some stitching.  We ended up just staying there enjoying the sun.

Later in the afternoon the Sulphur Crested Cockatoos returned as they do every afternoon.  They are really noisy as they come in to the trees, squawking and screeching.  Peter went off and took some photos and they were really active, doing acrobatics in the trees.

Today is our last day here.  Check out time is the usual 10am.  Peter has already closed up the awning and packed away the chairs.  Tonight I did some more mini flowers for the Fairfield.  I ended up painting some that were white but I wanted to make them pink, so I've left them to dry overnight before I pack them away in the morning.  Apart  from that there won't be a great deal to pack up.

We've had a lovely, relaxing time.  It's been a great way to celebrate.  Low key and quiet, but that suits us at the moment.  We'll be sorry to have to leave this lovely place.  But it won't be too long until we go away again.  Grey Nomads Camp is 17th May this year and we are looking forward to that very much.
Blessings,
Sandra