Been up the coast a bit today

Drove up to Catherine's Hill Bay which copped the fires last week. It was obviouisly a lovely place and what's left is pretty nice too.

The pier in the picture was originally a jetty from which they loaded coal onto ships bound for Newcastle just up the coast. Literally carrying coals to Newcastle..... 

It's a bit posh and expensive though .... this small building plot was a cool 1.6 million dollars.

The garage on the main road had burnt down but the shrimp survived as did the garden centre bit. Whilst everything around was torched, these people were sitting on benches, presumably workers still selling the pots out in the open.

After that we nipped up to Swansea. (nice little place) before coming back to The Entrance to see the pelicans being fed.

The feeding has been going on every afternoon since 1979 when a bloke from the chippy across the road started to feed them scraps. Now a whole gang turn up everyday at 1530 hrs. Big old things that live for about 25 years.

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