01/02 - Becoming pros in Coolangatta

Alarm at 7.30am, to see if we felt like surfing again. We got ready and had a big breakfast. We decided to go surfing! (I had already made my mind up: mind over body!!). We took the shuttle at 8.30am, got some cash out and walked to Rainbow beach.

The surf lesson started at 9am, doing it on a Monday morning was a good idea because it was just the 2 of us with Dave!! So a private lesson at the price of a group one (good deal!)!! The current was really strong today! plus there was a lot less people in the water so we moved closer to the centre of the beach (near the lifeguard area).

Just the two of us for 1h30, I can tell you, you improve A LOT! but we had a lot less down time (while waiting for your turn) we were: SO SO TIRED!! We can now: head towards left and right, do the pigdog position and change position during the same wave! D. got a bit frustrated at times but did really well!

On the way back to town, we took silly pictures on "surf" benches to immortalise the new learnt positions.

We looked around the hill and the pretty view of Surfer Paradise. It looks like a fake/movie/futuristic city. We met some local wildlife: lizards and brush turkeys

We came across that sign: 1st of February, we are surfing and it is 33°C. We still can really get our head around the idea!!! On the way to town we walked by a "lagoon" really nice and quiet place. The water is protected from wind and waves.

We went back to the shopping centre, this time we went to Lindcraft, Target & got D's English SIM card punched (but not sure if it is working anymore...). I bought some Australian stencils for our future scrapbook albums and for my journal. We went to a chemist for D.'s wounds that got infected (the ones from Yamba...) and finally had a treat: chocolate muffin for me and date cake for D.

2.15pm we were in the shuttle bus and by 3pm it was raining really badly and it barely stopped. I was on the computer working on photos, the blog, emails + booked out Greyhound bus and Brisbane hostel. We had dinner/lunch around 5/6pm (surfing is making us famish!). We had a movie night (chosen by me) : "Jumper" + packed our bags. I went to bed early (around 10.30pm) with my book.

 Walked 3.8 km today and surfed!!

Slept in a separated dorms, in Coolangatta YHA