We have started a 10 day house exchange with a couple who live near Coolangatta just north of the border between New South Wales and Queensland. After breakfast, we drove a couple of miles to Point Danger.
You may notice a faint line running down a wide street next to a blue marker. That is the border between the two states. Point Danger is where it meets the sea. The Tweed River enters the sea just to the south.
This is a lighthouse that used a laser as its light but the experiment was unsuccessful. It now uses lamps. If you look at the colour of the floor, the dark side is NSW and the light side is Queensland.
View south with a few surfers catching waves. The groynes that now form the mouth of the Tweed River interfered with the flow of sand from south to north and ruined the beaches on the Queensland side. Sand is now pumped from the south to the north and most of the QLD beaches have been restored.
Point Danger was named by Captain Cook in 1770. He did not land and there is now a dispute about whether this spot is what Cook named Point Danger or was it Fingals Head several miles to the south.
At 9 am the car park is relatively empty. The region is normally full of tourists but the southerners can not cross the border because NSW has a major Covid outbreak whereas Queensland is mostly virus-free. There are been a few cases in southeast Queensland so wearing masks is compulsory here. Further north in Hervey Bay where we live, there have been no cases since we arrived a year ago and wearing masks is not required. It feels strange to ut one on again.
Interesting structure on the NSW side of the border.
As you come up the street on the right hand side, you are in Queensland. Going back down, you are in NSW.
Snapper Rocks on the Queensland side. You may notice the remains of a pool that housed a porpoise show but it closed years ago.
A scrub turkey makes a change from a bin chicken.
Pandanus tree.
It's a lovely area up here.
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