Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Coffs Harbour trip

After a frenetic end to the year, we packed the car and made the 6+ hour journey to Coffs Harbour to spend Christmas with our sister Tess and her family. We stayed at a beach house at Moonee Beach and it was a fab location. Lulled by the sea breezes and frangipani fragrance, I relaxed sufficiently to sketch. This is the sketch I made of Moonee beach.


Coffs is tourist mad at this time of year but we avoided the town. Tess lives in Central Bucca which is on the plateau of the range. To get there, we have to drive up these slopes planted with banana and avocado crops. It's very scenic. Then we get to Bruxner Park which is a gum forest, straight and tall. Snakes frequently bask themselves on the road. Finally we get to farm land and it's very lush this year after all the rainfall it received. This next sketch is of the banana coast.