Palm Beach

Summer Bay Surf Lifesaving Club and Kiosk

Palm Beach, beautiful beach, but no palm trees

 Another day took the bus and headed for Palm Beach.  It was one of the L buses (means Limited stops.) but it did stop heaps as it went further from Sydney.  Took hours to get there.  When we hopped off, wondered what we had come to, the shops at the end of the beach where we got of the bus were closed, only open in summer we presumed.  Where the coffee shop?  They had a toilet at least.  Walked along the beach and saw flags flying, Must be a shop.  A little kiosk called Summer Bay, for those of us of OUR generation, didn't know what that meant, but turned out that is where they film Home and Away for all those soap lovers.  Well they had a range of pies, mince, chicken and curry.  So we refuelled on pies and coke.  the old guy in the kiosk said they would be filming later in the day. They were having lunch.  Well we decided to walk to the light house.  Good track up cut out of the limestone rocks.  Great view once we got to the top of Palm Beach and the harbour on the other side.  Came back down and stopped for an ice cream at the kiosk, Lovely they had put up umbrellas and more tables and chairs.  While we were sitting there scoffing our ice creams a camera crew was setting up their railway track for their cameras.  Must be gonna be some action.  he "famous people" and their enterage arrived.  We  thought we might move as didn't fancy being extras on TV.  Think they were about to ask us to get out any way.  We had met some girls on the bus that morning and they were excited because they would see their heroes from Home and  Away.  Well we had to ask who they were.  They had been filming one young guy with his surf board, jumping off a picnic seat, must have felt a dick doing that.

Walking along beach to track to climb to light house look out