We drove to Earth Espresso Bar for breakfast, early enough to be able to park on the street for 2 hours. Later parking became more difficult, especially along the surf beaches. Breakfast was alright but not brilliant.
Technically our caravan park is located in the suburb of Golden Beach, so named because it once had numerous golden wattle trees. The area is bounded by Pumicestone Passage to the east and Pelican Waters to the west. While mostly new houses have been built in Pelican Waters around canals, there are older houses along the Esplanade in Golden Beach, including this Federation home close to our caravan park.
I walked north along the shoreline to the Navy cadets training centre, where there has been significant erosion. This facility is close to an opening in the Bribie Island sandbar. A mural depicting Navy history extends the full length of the building.
A raised boardwalk through the mangroves highlights the different vegetation that grows along the shore. In places the sand is almost white showing the wave lines from the retreating tide.
The reason we stayed at Golden Beach is that we are only 3kms from the Caloundra RSL where we saw the Beccy Cole & Adam Harvey concert. We queued to order meals and waited an hour for them to be served. We should have gone to MacDonald’s on our way instead!
The concert was good but we were down the back where it was hard to see past tall people. Their album is number 1 on the ARIA chart so lots of people have bought a copy. They seem to have lost a whole box of CDs at the venue they played at in Mackay, so weren’t able to sell any at the show tonight.
We caught up with some other Roadies we hadn’t expected to see. There were probably a dozen or so Roadies in the audience.
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