Poppy's birthday! We deliver our little present and wish Poppy happy 4th birthday and join her for a birthday cake celebration.
Another day, another market, this time along the coast at Lennox Heads. It is a quaint little seaside town, popular with surfers as the waves are great here, and in fact all along this stretch of coastline. The market stretches along the beach road and on the shores of the lake... whose waters are stained a rather odd brown colour on account of the tea trees which line the banks. The waters are therapeutic but none of us fancy it much! The beach is so beautiful that we stay here after the market and a delicious coffee and have our lunch on the sand. Sadly in the afternoon the wind picks up and so we head back to Byron where it is more sheltered. As we leave Liz and the gang arrive! They had had a flat battery on their car and so couldnt go where they were planning to and ended up at the same market.
We decide to rendezvous later on the beach after we have visited the lighthouse at Cape Byron - the most easterly point in Australia. We drive to the car park at the top - and are staggeres to find the charge is $7 - so we turn round and park 300 metres below for free and climb up the hill along the path. The views towards Byron and beyond are beautiful but looking out to sea there is a huge expanse of open ocean!
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Cape Byron Lighthouse is the most easterly light in Australia, and one of the most powerful.The cape was named by British explorer Captain James Cook on passing here on 15 May 1770, to honour British explorer John Byron who circumnavigated the globe in the HMS Dolphin from 1764 to 1766.
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