Fish and chips on the beach.

One of the great things about house sitting is the variety of places we see. At the moment we are staying on the Gold Coast. Normally this would be considered one of the top holiday destinations, but we are free to enjoy it any time at all.

The school holidays have just started, so with the owner’s permission we have our fourteen year old granddaughter staying with us for a couple of days. We decided to take her to the beach for fish and chips for lunch.

Wrapped up in the normal white paper it's the sort of take away we don't have too often, but really enjoy when we do.

It’s surprising how hard it is to find a fish and chip shop right on the main beach, so we ended up cruising right along the beach til we got to Burleigh Heads. We had stayed at Burleigh heads some time ago and knew a really good fish and chip shop there.

Once we had our food we walked just a hundred yards or so to the beach and sat at one of the barbeque tables overlooking the beach.

Sitting on the sand looking towards Burleigh Heads.

The fish was really good quality Dory, sweet and tender and the batter was thin and crispy. I took some tomato sauce with me, so I could have plenty of sauce with the chips.

Once we were full of fish and chips we had a walk down by the sea. There was an off-shore wind, so the waves were unusually small. We could see where previous storms had washed away a lot of the sand, so there was a bank we had to walk down to get to the water.

Looking north to Surfers Paradise skyline. There is rain coming down from the north, but it's nice here at the moment and sunny to the south.

It's winter time, but there were still a few hardy souls swimming and some of the Life Guards were on duty.There was also some sort of cycling race in the area, so lots of stalls and tents were lining the road above the beach.

Not a bad life really eh? Yay for house sitting!