Well, we’ve just got back from a glorious weekend down the beach, Kingscliff to be precise. I’ve driven through the area before on many occasions, but never stopped off until now. Kingscliff Beach is the favourite beach of one of my Aussie friends here, so I thought it was about time I gave it a try.
We actually stayed in a holiday unit in a place called Casuarina which gave us access to a whole host of coastal towns in the north-eastern corner of New South Wales, from Tweed heads down to Pottsville, as well as Coolangatta just over the border in Queensland.
Only last Wednesday I was whingeing about the uncharacteristically dull weather we were having here, and I kind of hoped it would go away for our beachy weekend. Let’s see how that little wish went as we take a pictorial tour of the area.
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Casuarina
Kingscliff
Coolangatta
Danger Point
Tweed Heads
Hastings Point
Keeping cool…
Hastings Point Lookout
Cabarita
Chinderah
Fingal Head
Pottsville
A view of the whole area from much further back…
The drive home…
Now, that’s what I call a beachy weekend. An absolutely stunning area, and less than two hours drive from where we live. I was tempted to say lucky with the weather as well, but this is Australia, it is not luck. It’s the weather we usually get.
Hi Bob, nice article , I enjoyed reading it quite a lot, I was wondering if Brisbane has a beach and you can live close to the sea and have a city life like Sydney or not.
tnx…
No, Brisbane isn’t really a beach city. It’s an hour and a quarter’s drive to the nearest proper beach, but we do have bits of sand in places like Brighton and Manly. But because it’s all mangrove up that way, the sea isn’t that great.
No surfing either, there’s no real waves because we are in a bay. We do have South Bank Parklands though, that’s a sandy lagoon (man-made) in the city.
https://www.bobinoz.com/blog/3934/brisbane-is-not-on-the-beach-but/