Friday 30th September - Toogoom

I lay in till 8am today to be awoken by Gaz who was an excited little puppy about going fishing. We got up and applied the sunscreen before heading over to the urangan pier. When we arrived i was shocked to see just how many people had their fishing rods lined all the way along! it was like some little fishing community all attending high tide on a friday morning. Unfortunately it was looking as though no one was catching anything apart from someone who had caught a sting ray and cruelly had it suffocating in the sun...a slow painful death. Gaz and i headed up the boardwalk towards the top end of the pier but the sea was quite rough. He fished for an hour whilst i sun bathed in my new bikini (courtesy of ASOS!). At 10.30am, having caught nothing and feeling a little defeatist, we piled everything into the car and took a drive up north along the coast. Its been a lovely hot day today with very little breeze so we had the air con in the car pelting. We followed signs to 'Toogoom', not really knowing what on earth we would find there but was pleasantly surprised when the sign lead us to a secluded beach area which had 2 cafes and bbq areas. It was very pretty and nice to see people fishing off the little pier that was there. The sea was so clean and blue you could see the fish swimming around through the water. Gaz and i had a little walk around the area and decided we very much like this spot and it was a good find, away from all the tourists (we are classing ourselves as locals now).

We ate some lunch in 'the salty squid' cafe and enjoyed a vanilla thickshake which was HUGE! yum yum. I took some photos and will put them on facebook later. We drove back to the flat at 2pm and have fallen asleep underneath the air con. Gaz is still fast asleep but ill be waking him up soon so that we can shower and have some food! it is cheat day and Gazs turn to decide where to eat so dont know where we are going to end up yet!