Good Friday. A last minute picnic (always the best kind, hard boiled eggs, carrot sticks, cherry tomatoes, a quick home made hummus and some mandarins) and a trip down into the Royal National Park. The usual rule is that we head for somewhere we haven’t been before and include a bit of a walk. There are…
A beautiful clear lake, gorgeous mountain scenery, wide open vistas and a kick-ass organic raspberry soda. These were the highlights of our recent holiday in Jindabyne, in the Snowy Mountains of NSW. It was incredibly hot, most of the country was suffering a heat wave that week and the mountains were not exempt from that.…
On the eighth day of Christmas, I forgot to blog! I also went on a drive to Wollongong, via the beautiful coastal villages and the stunning Sea Cliff Bridge Young Gun is on his L’s, so he drove all the way down and most of the way back. Fish and chips at Wollongong harbour, nice…
Today is a cross between a #blog12daysxmas post and one of my Daytripper posts. This morning I mentioned to some friends that I was taking pot luck for my walk today: I had half a thought of going to Bondi or Coogee and walking some of the beautiful coast track, but when I got off…
In an attempt to atone for the excess of food consumed on Christmas Day, today I walked across the historic railway bridge that spans the Georges River between Oatley and Como on the South Coast/Illawarra railway line. It’s a popular walk and I often see power walkers, joggers, families and cyclists using the bridge as…
I love a good public holiday Monday and I’ve been so very, very busy at work the past few weeks that I found myself really looking forward to the recent long weekend even more than I normally would. This particular long weekend I got away to the Central Coast with a few members of my…
There is a lot of architecture going on in Watson’s Bay. Chiefly, there is a weatherboard, slightly nautical look that struck me as an architectural cross between The Ghost and Mrs Muir and Admiral Boom’s house from Mary Poppins. It intrigued me and I would have taken photos except that I felt a bit awkward about snapping pictures of…
I love a long weekend! Particularly a four day long weekend. Good Friday saw us head out to Botany Bay National Park at Kurnell for a few hours with some friends who had a rare day off because of the public holiday and wanted to do some fishing. I’m not mad keen about fishing so…
It’s not exactly a strenuous bushwalk, but the walk down to the top of Wentworth Falls from the carpark and picnic grounds is a nice way to spend an hour. There are some steps, so if you haven’t been before, be prepared for a huffy and puffy walk back up the cliff (unless you are…
In the next of a not very reliable or regular series of posts designed to highlight the stories behind the photos I’m taking for the Friday Photos Challenge, I bring you a tiny bit of the Coast Walk – from South Bondi to Bronte Beach. If you spend even 5 minutes looking through the Friday…
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