Saturday...

We had such a nice day yesterday! We rented a car around 9:30 and ran a few errands. I picked up my Padi temporary certificate, which means I am an official Padi graduate...Yippee! After a morning of errand running, we scooted home, packed a bag and grabbed Jes and heading off on a sight seeing adventure. We didn't really know where we were going...well, we knew we wanted to end up at the dog beach, but it isn't an off lease beach until after 4:00, so we had a few hours to kill until then. We just drove, stopped for a cold treat and drinks at a little store in the middle of no where and enjoyed the sights, stopping for pictures along the way. We visited the Glass House Mountains look off, but didn't stay too long, as it has been very hot! Temps are getting up to about 31ish and humidity is inching up.

The look off was very pretty.

We stopped to take this one on the side of the road.
We drove by pinapple patches and what I think was a papaya tree field. See the little pinapple growing in there?
There it is!
Papaya, anyone? Australians call papaya "Paw Paw".


Of course we had a great time at the beach! Jesse loved it, as always. He was permanently glued to Steve's side for some reason, which was fine with me. Steve entertained him while I read and relaxed.

Australian pines.

There were a lot of dogs running around the beach, but this old guy was quite content to just sit and take it all in. Just like an old man sitting on his front porch!
The waves were insane! Very big and very rough. Steve tried swimming and got banged around pretty good. Since Jesse wanted to stay right with Steve, he would try to swim out with him, but it was way too rough for him and he got dunked hard a few times. We opted for the "kiddie pool" as Steve called it...the bit of water going from the ocean to the river.
Here's Jesse actually swimming and not risking near drowning death.
He loves that ball. I bought him one awhile back and we lost it, so I bought 2 more, just to make sure he always has a back up. He'll run for hours as long as he's chasing that ball! He also swallows a lot of salt water trying to swim with that ball in his mouth. On the way home, Jesse barfed sea water all over the back seat of the rental car! Lovely.

Steve and I went out for supper in Redcliffe last night...http://www.redcliffe.qld.gov.au/tourism/outandabout.html...It's a cute little town, not far from Brisbane. Dinner was yummy! We shared a bucket of shrimp to start....soooo good! All and all, a great day!