Into the Pacific.

So......last night a storm rumbled over us as we headed to bed. One particularly loud thunder clap woke Will but I had been awake for awhile listening to the rain. I heard Anne closing the window upstairs.This morning she said she had heard heavy breathing outside her window and that was why she closed it..... it would only have  been a possum.It was a gloriously sunny day today but again they were predicting storms.After Anne had prepared her Spring Onion and Pea Tart for tea tonight we headed out for the day. I had intended to take her down to the Gold Coast and onto Currumbin for the Lorikeet feeding but we got as far as Yatala North and Roxy was making an intermittent chirruping sound. I realised it was one of the belts and worried that it would snap decided to turn back at Yatala South. If anyone was going to get a storm today it would probably be the Gold Coast anyway so it was probably for the best.Driving back I had a thought and turned off the air conditioning.......the chirruping stopped.......it was only the air conditioning belt which did not seem as threatening. I made a snap decision and took the Gateway Motorway exit and we headed up to Bribie Island so that Anne could swim in the Pacific Ocean.We went to Woorim Beach. It was not very busy.The sea was lovely and warm but we spotted a few big blue jelly fish in the water which was a bit off putting. I wasn't sure if they were stinging jelly fish but a few other swimmers were being startled by them with one guy shouting " It's a blue - bottle!" in alarm. I knew it wasn't one of those because they are tiny but we still a bit on edge. At one point something touched my leg and I turned to find it was one of the jelly fish but it didn't sting me. We'd had enough though and got out and had our lunch.Five seagulls came to watch us eat.After lunch we had a wander up the beach.Since Anne arrived we have walked at least an hour everyday......except yesterday when we only managed 40 minutes.After the walk we had an ice cream and headed back to Brisbane. The promised storm had arrived and the skies over Brisbane were very grey. We had definitely made the right decision to head north rather than south today.