Frugal Film Project January results
Australian beach photos on an Olympus MJU II
Visiting the beach is an Australian summertime ritual.
The beaches within 10 minutes drive of our house are not the best though, more mangrove and mud flats than pure white sand.
Thankfully we are blessed with a relatively unspoilt jewel off the coast - North Stradbroke Island / Minjerribah - known locally as ‘Straddie’.
In the final week of school holidays we packed up the car and headed over to the island for a day trip. Foot passengers can catch a 30 minute water taxi across Moreton Bay, but as we were driving, we took the slower and more expensive car barge.
We immediately headed around to the hilly village of Point Lookout, which is blessed with spectacular ocean views and stunning beaches. One of the main tourist drawcards on the island is the gorge walk which meanders around the cliffs and hills overlooking the ocean.
It was a scorching hot summer day but we were cooled down by a sudden shower. After the walk we visited Main Beach and Cylinder Beach, trying to stay in the shade as much as we could.
We enjoyed a final swim at Brown Lake - a freshwater lake tinged brown by native tea trees. Wildlife is a big Straddie drawcard - at Brown Lake we saw a goanna, curlews and a kangaroo.
After 10 hours on the island we headed for home with a car full of sand, thorougly exhausted.
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If you’d like to see more photos from this roll - and find out why I was a little disappointed with January’s results - watch the video below.