The taste of freedom! Schapelle Corby raises a glass and celebrates her 41st birthday at a pub lunch with her sister Mercedes after a year back in Australia
- Schapelle Corby, sister Mercedes and mother Rosleigh had celebratory lunch
- Corby was allowed to return to Australia last May after years in a Balinese jail
- She has much to celebrate since her release from Kerobokan Prison
- Corby has produced a pop song and obtained a learner driver’s permit
Convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby has celebrated her 41st birthday with a pub lunch on the water.
Photos supplied to Daily Mail Australia show Corby enjoying beer and sunshine at the Ivory Hotel in Tweed Heads, at the New South Wales border, last Tuesday.
Her mother, Rosleigh Rose, sister Mercedes, nephews and other close relatives joined the celebrations, chowing down on seafood, salad and birthday cake.
‘(Schapelle) seemed quite content, smiling and laughing,’ a witness said.
Convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby celebrated her 41st birthday with family at the Ivory Hotel at Tweed Heads last Tuesday
![Photographs obtained by Daily Mail Australia show Ms Corby enjoying a beer on the sundeck of the riverside pub](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/07/17/04/4E543F0300000578-5961177-Photographs_obtained_by_Daily_Mail_Australia_show_Ms_Corby_enjoy-a-2_1531797990262.jpg)
Photographs obtained by Daily Mail Australia show Ms Corby enjoying a beer on the sundeck of the riverside pub
![Corby and her sister Mercedes were all smiles as they enjoyed a conversation with Schapelle's nephew](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/07/17/04/4E5444B600000578-5961177-Corby_and_her_sister_Mercedes_were_all_smiles_as_they_enjoyed_a_-a-3_1531797990500.jpg)
Corby and her sister Mercedes were all smiles as they enjoyed a conversation with Schapelle’s nephew
Corby only recently returned from an overseas holiday to Vietnam where she was reunited with her Kerobokan Prison boyfriend Ben Panangian.
The South East Asian jaunt sparked incredulous comments from her social media followers who wondered how she had found herself overseas once again.
‘How do you go being a convicted drug trafficker getting into another country?’ one follower wrote.
Another offered her some priceless words of advice: ‘Make sure to pack your own bags before flying home’.
![After a relaxed pub meal (above), Schapelle fed seagulls with her nephews](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/07/17/04/4E543ED100000578-5961177-After_a_relaxed_pub_meal_above_Schapelle_fed_seagulls_with_her_n-a-4_1531797990613.jpg)
After a relaxed pub meal (above), Schapelle fed seagulls with her nephews
![Perfect day out: Corby was spotted strutting along the sundeck at the Tweed Heads pub](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/07/17/04/4E543ED600000578-5961177-Perfect_day_out_Corby_was_spotted_strutting_along_the_sundeck_at-a-5_1531797990840.jpg)
Perfect day out: Corby was spotted strutting along the sundeck at the Tweed Heads pub
Corby was jailed in Bali for nine years for smuggling more than four kilograms of cannabis into Indonesia in a boogie board bag.
She returned to Australia in May 2017 and in the days since has obtained her learner driver’s permit and released a pop song.
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