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.
