On a beautiful morning

 I was up very early this morning. I did not beat the kookaburras but I was not far behind. I also did no beat what seemed like half the population of Terrigal who were also up and walking.

A very hot day was forecast and so it has turned out, 

I took my Q3 43 with me to keep my eye in and hoping to get some silhoutte shots in monochrome. I set the jpeg setting to monochrome using one of the  Leica Photos presets however after reviewing the photos I realised that days like today in Australia are just not suited to being rendered in monochrome. So here's today's Terrigal Diary in glorious Leica colour.

 

Sizzling summer is here

Here, downunder, we are well into summer. The switch from what is rather unconvincingly called spring into summer was rather abrupt. A few weeks ago we still had our sweaters at the ready and then last Saturday it went over 40ºC here at Terrigal in mid afternoon. Since then it has been absolutely beautiful-warm/hot but not too hot although another heatwave is forecast for the weekend.

I took the photo below with my phone on Tuesday afternoon and it shows the beach at Terrigal Haven at 4.00pm. It was taken from the outdoor bar/deck area of the Terrigal Pavillion, a very recent addition to the local hospitality scene. 

Many years ago the building was the Terrigal Yacht Club, then it became the Haven, a fine dining restaurant and cafe, until a new proprietor took it over and gave it an A$10m total rebuild and it is now a superb venue. A great place to sit and take in the vista with a cold beer or two as we did.