This week we had a little bit of time between leaving Noosa and meeting our friends in Sydney for the City to Surf weekend. Sidenote: there are 90,000 entrants in the race on Sunday so it should be pretty epic with plenty to distract me from my very slow running. On Monday we drove from Noosa to our friend’s place in Umina Beach on the NSW Central Coast (just north of Sydney) and leave this afternoon for Sydney. M has been our tour guide while the other M (whose house we’re staying at) has been working. Some things we have done:
- Morning runs along the coastal path
- Hot chocolate and bacon and egg roll from the Kilcare Kiosk
- Light lunch at the The Boathouse Hotel in Patonga. This is a tiny little village, with a big hotel restaurant right across from the water. We had some calamari and sparkling water because we had dinner plans.
- Dinner at Margarita Daze overlooking Umina Beach. We started outside on the deck while the sun went down, then moved inside. I had a margarita (of course) and we had shared plates. The menu said small shared plates—they were not small.
- Watched the surfers tackling the big surf break at Avoca. Then continued watching while we had brekkie burgers at The Point at Avoca Beach.
- Bouddi Coastal Walk followed by fish tacos at the Kilcare Kiosk
- Pizza and pasta dinner at La Fiamma. The three M’s had pizza while G had pasta. The pizza was really good and G said his was as well.
- Another post run egg and bacon roll, this time at The Box on the Water in Ettalong.
- Plus we’ve been watching Untamed in the evenings when we get home from our early dinners.
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11 responses to “List #28: What We Did This Week on the NSW Central Coast”
Good grief Australia is beautiful! Those beaches!
I know, so beautiful. That area is all jagged inlets so there is a new beach vista every couple of minutes.
Gah! You are making me a bit “home sick” – it’s a weird word to use because I was only in Australia for 4 months and it was back in 2022, but it was such a formative time for me and it was my first time being by the ocean (I saw the ocean for the first time on my way over when I had an overnight in Fiji). That part of Australia is just so so gorgeous! I really want to go back and show my husband where I went to school (University if Sunshine Coast). You guys really had a fantastic week!!
That is just amazing to me that you were that old when you first saw the ocean. Since most of Australia’s population is perched around the coast, that is really unusual.
Gorgeous photos. Love it. I would honestly be all about small plate that weren’t small. Good luck in the race. I’m also a bif fan of margaritas.
The restaurant had about six margarita varieties, but I went pretty standard this time. We are all good eaters, but these “small” plates were still too big. If we had have known we would have ordered one less.
Wow, those sure are amazing photos! You’re very talented.
Enjoy the race, I hope it goes well. 90,000 people! WOW.
Thanks J, I do enjoy photography. Good subject matter helps and taking a lot of photos. The race went quite well, apart from the weather.
Such nice beaches. You live in a truly beautiful place.
I wonder what the different stripy sand formations are. They look so interesting.
And the food. Ah I would want to try it all.
The process that formed the rock formations is very similar to the tessellated pavement we saw down in Tasmania, but this time with sandstone as the rock. The red colour is iron carbonate in the stones that has been oxidised.
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