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Sunday activities/Darjeeling Express


18 Jan

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Last Sunday Iris came over to visit and we took her snorkelling.  She had never been before, and so we went to Clovelly which is a pretty easy sort of place to start.  We had a nice time in the water with the rest of the hoards, but it started to rain just as we were getting out.

We then headed to Newtown for dinner (Indian) and went to the movies.  Darjeeling Limited (hope I spelled that correctly) is the movie we saw.  It was a good movie, but certainly not one I’d recommend to everyone!  It was very strange with rather unlovable main characters, but I enjoyed it anyway.  It also had a strange music score, and yet it suited the movie well!  I thought it was very well done.

Jervis Bay weekend


12 Dec

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Last weekend a group of 6 of us went to Jervis Bay. We drove down on Saturday morning, stayed at Bristol Point camp ground that night and drove home on Sunday afternoon. Our little group consisted of Aurelie, Nico, Andrew (Rose), Manibu, Andrew and I. We went to the Blow Hole at Kiama, followed by the Little Blow Hole and we stopped at Nowra to get some food for the trip. After we had set up our tents at our camp site, we walked the 400 metres to the beach and went swimming. Everyone went snorkelling except me, since I’d forgotton to bring my contacts!!!

From there we went to a beach on the other side of the peninsula, which was at the end of a long dirt road. On the way we saw numerous wallabies hopping away from us, but we also saw an Echidna which just tried hard to bury itself while we tried to take photos. The beach was lovely and white with firm, fine sand that was easy to walk on.

Back at the tent site we cooked our dinner over a fire, and just sat around and talked.

I didn’t sleep well because it was hot in our tent, so when I woke up at 4:45 am I decided I’d go down to the beach and watch the sun rise. I dragged Andrew along, but it wasn’t a very impressive sun rise and we were eaten alive by mosquitos, so at 6 am we went back to the tent for another snooze. We both felt cooler and slept for a bit.

We had pancakes with fruit and maple syrup for breakfast, then packed up the campsite and went to Cave Beach for a couple of hours. The boys had fun trying to body surf on the waves. It was very windy on the beach, making it a bit unpleasant, so we decided to find somewhere else for lunch. The lunch spot ended up being Hole in the Wall, which was very nice and after lunch Aurelie, Nico and Manibu went snorkelling. We also saw a huge eagle soaring up in the sky, and as it got near we realised it was a sea eagle. I’ve never seen one in the wild before, so that was something very special.

Then started the trek home, with a little detour to Husskinson where we got ice creams, and on a short walk on the rocky beach we saw a Sooty Oystercatcher and loads of Port Jackson shark egg cases. I’ve never seen so many in one place before, there were thousands!!

Rikke’s visit


30 Oct

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Last Wednesday my friend from Denmark, Rikke, and her mother and mother’s friend (Lisa) arrived for a holiday in Australia. I picked them up from the airport and dropped them at their accommodation in Clovelly. Friday night we picked them all up and went to visit Mick in his new flat in Randwick, and then all went out for dinner. We went to a Lebanese restaurant which was very tasty!

Andrew had to work on Saturday night, from around 11 pm to 7 am, so I decided to take Rikke and co. snorkelling at Balmoral Beach to see if we could see any sea horses there. I picked them up at Clovelly around 9 am, got lost on the way to Balmoral Beach (I should have paid more attention to the street directory) and when we finally arrived we had to spend quite a while searcing for a carpark. So we finally made it to Balmoral beach, with Rikke nursing a hangover, but when we got in the water we discovered it was very turbid and so the visibility was dreadful. The water level was higher than I’d ever seen it before, and there was no way you’d be able to snorkel along the net without hitting your head on the jetty. So much for our snorkelling trip!

We decided to call it quits, went back to the car and I drove them to North Head to see the views across to the city. We had lunch at a cafe there, but the food was overpriced, wasn’t great quality and we waited ages for it to be brought to our table. I certainly won’t be going back there again!

I dropped everyone off in Manly and got home around 3 pm. Andrew had only just woken up, so it was good to be out of the flat so that I didn’t disturb him….and it was nice to get into the water, even if it was dirty and polluted with rubbish.

They all flew to WA on Monday morning, but will be back in about a month for a couple of days before flying home again.

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