27th December 2020

 After a wet and not so warm Christmas Day and Boxing Day it looks as if we are in for a beautiful day today. Terrigal Lagoon at 6.32 am this morning. It won't be so tranquil in a few hours.

Only 7 sleeps 'til Xmas

 It is going to be another hot and uncomfortably humid day here in Terrigal but early this morning as the sun rose it was stunningly beautiful and there were lots of people out and about even at 5.30 to enjoy it.

Spotted

 It's not that unusual to see old cars on the road here in Australia but they are usually old Holdens or Mustangs with a sprinkling of old Minis and others from time to time. It's not often that you see really unusual cars and this Riley Elf -top photo-spotted in Kiama two weeks ago is a real rarity. 

The Elf was a badge engineered premium version of the BMC Mini produced in the UK between 1961 and !969. It was never sold in Australia so this one must have been a personal import. 

The Elf had a sister variant, the Wolseley Hornet. Both were three box models with an extended front end with a big chrome grille and a boot extension.Viewed today they seem weird and ridiculously smal lbut in their day they were moderately succesful sellersin the UK.

 

The Vauxhall Cresta -below-spotted in a local car park last weekend would have been assembled by GMHolden here in Australia. In the 1960s in the UK the Cresta was seen as a spiv's or wideboy's car with its American styling and automatic gearbox. This is the first one I have ever seen in Australia. I suspect most fell victim to tinworm years ago.

The Little Blowhole, Kiama.

 The Blowhole at Kiama on the NSW South Coast is the major tourist attraction in Kiama but it has a much less visited smaller sibling aptly called the Little Blowhole located a short distance to the south. 

I was in Kyama over the weekend and I captured this blow from the Little Blowhole on my early morning walk this morning. The Kiama Lighthouse is just visible on the far headland.

Let's go surfing-part two.

Here's part two of my surfing photo collection. All taken at Terrigal Beach or nearby Avoca Beach except the smiling surfer walking across the beach -last photo below-which is one of my personal favourite photos and was taken at Cellito Beach south of Forster on the Mid NSW coast.