More Burleigh

We've been in Burleigh a week now, and settled into a very relaxed routine....

1. Morning walk - always 6-7 kilometres, and usually heading North (more coffee options that way). There's always plenty to see, especially this morning, ANZAC Day, with a lot of action over in the park opposite, from dawn onwards, and a service at 10.00am in the town park.

Morning walk views today ..........

2. Morning coffee - our two favourite places are The Paddock Bakery in Nth Burleigh ...... great coffee and in a very pretty location (the garden and verandah of a cute older style house) .......

And our other favourite: The Commune Café on the Gold Coast Highway, near Ellen's family's apartment. We were so happy to get a table there this morning on a very crowded Sunday morning that we celebrated with a full breakfast as well as our coffee (yummy coriander fritters, poached eggs and lots of avocado)........

Yesterday morning on our walk we hit the jackpot with a visit to the Saturday fresh food markets at the local school. Indoor plants so healthy and so cheap.........

Beautiful local produce - so fresh (and so cheap). Pick any 3 for $5!

All my favourite food groups...........

These bunches of herbs were $1.50 each!!!

So many passionfruit ($5 a bag) ........

And cool old cars are quite a thing here. Rob enjoys having a good look and sending pics to Joshy .......

3. Then we go swimming - at our local Burleigh Beach ........ some people might say the surf has been quite flat here this past week, but it is just the way I LIKE IT...... and the pristine Pacific Ocean seems so warm by our South of Queensland skins..........

4. It's often about 3.00pm by the time all that is done ..... time for some reading and relaxation, before it's  ..............

5. Wine o'clock - possibly our favourite time of the day, sitting on our balcony, sunset watching, people watching and enjoying a glass of whichever carefully chosen wine Rob has selected for our enjoyment this week.

While enjoying the sunset chorus of noisy lorikeets in the pine trees over the road and the occasional visit of this nosy (and sometimes noisy) kookaburra!

6. Then its time for dinner.... something simple in the apartment if we've eaten out during the day - but there are some interesting options around Burleigh too (Jimmy Wah's has been a favourite so far). Walking to our dinner date is another opportunity to admire the sunset light show............

It's a hard life but someone's gotta do it!