New Year in Merimbula!

New years eve was probably the hottest day we've had so far. With no surf we had a nice beach day. We picked up some tasty food from the super market and decided to head back to a camping ground that we'd spent a couple of nights at, a place high up in the forest called Yellow Pinch Dam. The ground was quiet except for one other family and an occasional man that would appear from the woods. Presumably most people chose to see in the New Year in the Town, or even more popular heading for Sydney. Again another lovely family, they were also taking a year out to travel, the only difference was they were doing it with 3 children, brave!
We had a lovely evening, We cooked a nice meal, made a fire, played a variation of Beetle, but instead of using dice we used 'pass the pig' pigs and instead of drawing beetles we drew Koalas. John was the winner of Koala! By midnight we were the only ones still up, we celebrated with a drink of fizz and sang a quiet version of auld lang syne. It was lovely! A perfect way to see in the New year!
The next day we even found a beach we didn't know existed and to our surprise that's where the surf had been hiding. Yay! Once we were suited up and ready to get in the water John turned to me and said 'What's that in the water?' I thought he was winding me up as we've often played this cruel joke on each other but as I looked out to sea I got a glimpse of a fin. I had to double take, but waiting to catch sight of it again we saw a huge gracefully leap out of the water, it was a dolphin, and then another and another, there was a whole group of them, they were amazing! We've never seen dolphins in their own habitats, a few Porpoises at Filey Beach but not this size and not this many, it was fantastic.
Happy New Year! Hope 2011 is a great one!.x