Ou est le soleil???

Where is the sun - certainly not in the Broadwater. After some wonderful weather on the Sunshine Coast, we arrived back to the Gold Coast on Saturday, and torrential rain, on and off, more on, than off. Anyway guess no one out there is feeling too sorry for us!. It has been the same all the way down the coast.

What does one do when confined to a caravan with headcolds in revolting weather, they watch other species more silly than themselves - namely the "masked lapwing". These 2 in the photo below are amazing, they are sharing the "nesting" duties, which is out in the open in a garden opposite our van, they have weathered torrential, and I mean torrential rain for the last 3 days. It's quite crazy where they lay their eggs, one leaves for hours on end, then it comes back, there is some backchat, then a changing of the guard takes place, and of course if you dare go near them or the their nest - you are dive bombed. Maybe we might be lucky to see the chicks before we leave.

Today, to amuse ourselves in some more very ordinary weather, we spent many hours looking around, including having lunch, at the new IKEA complex just south of Brisbane - most impressive. The house situation is still up in the air - most unusual rules up here, definitely "buyer beware", but then the stamp duty is more "buyer friendly". C'est la vie!!!