Lighthouses

The weekend was filled with wind, rain, more wind, and two lighthouses. Jill and I rented a car and successfully drove to Fingal Holiday Park on Friday night. After arriving afterhours in the dark, we successfully checked in and set up our tent on the grassy lawn with about 10 other campers in a 40 campsite area. The sleeping, however, was not as successful, the wind blew so hard that I thought we might end up like Dorothy and get blown into the sky. We awoke to a beautiful day that continued to be windy. It didn’t end up like the perfect beach day as we had hoped for so we headed to Byron Bay. A cute little hippy town at the most easterly point of Australia mainland. At the most eastern point was a large lighthouse with lots of walking trails all the way to the beachfront. Sunday ended up being just as stormy, so we headed back to Brisbane the scenic way while stopping to admire the Fingal Head Lighthouse with the well-formed columnar basalts. We also saw dolphins playing in the waves while visiting both lighthouses! We drove in and out of extremely heavy rain storms, but made it back to Brisbane safely.