Weekend at Caro's

Back from the weekend and into another work week. There's one problem with weekends, and thats that they're seperated by weeks.

But the weekend was great. A girl from work invited myself and a few other people from work to her place on North Stradbroke Island, which is just off the east coast from Brisbane.

We stayed in a sweet beach house that was equipped with everything needed for a beach holiday: Kayaks, snorkling gear, fishing poles, surf boards, boogie boards, bbq, hammock, etc., etc.

Basically here's how the weekend shaped up: Left work a little early to catch a 6pm ferry from the coast to the island; drove to the house, settled in, made supper, played cards on the deck; woke up Saturday and went surfing and played some rugby on the beach, home for lunch; kayaked out to Shag Rock and went snorkling, took an eskie of with a couple beers and had those out on the ocean. We saw 2 sharks (but apparently they were a species that didn't have teeth, oh well!), a sea turtle, big fish, and little fish while snorkling. Before dinner (pronounced dinnah here in Oz) we went for a tennis match under the lights (sun goes down around 6pm here in winter) and had blast. That night we steamed some fish and our cook for the evening did an excellent job. The rest of the night was filled with cards, beers, music, and laughs. Sunday morning we went for another surf, a swim, a snooze on the beach, fishing, and more laughs. Here are few pics, hope they're alright...

The hammock:

Friend from work by the Jeep in the yard:

View from the deck... you can't really see the ocean through the trees but it's there:

Went fishing from a cliff on Sunday, here's a fellow fisherman. I don't think had caught anything all day:

Me... on a cliff:

Took this pic from the beach when we surfing the 2nd day: