Spring sunshine

The weekend has been sunny and warm with clear blue skies - much like the first few weeks when we arrived last year. We've had quite a busy weekend, starting on Friday night with another 'expat gathering' at a hotel/pub in nearby Terrey Hills. There were 16 of us and an interesting crowd, so we had a good evening. We were also amazed by the size and organisation of the pub, which had recently been renovated apparently and was clearly the place to be on a Friday night, although as usual most people had gone by 10pm.

On Saturday Sue and I drove up the coast after dropping Rebecca at the Mall. We had a walk around Church Point on Pittwater and then Newport to get some local information for Sue's business.

On Sunday the girls were busy with other things so we headed to Narrabeen and had a hour's kayaking on the lagoon which was fun and very peaceful out on the water. We then headed down to the beach at Narrabeen and had a walk along before sitting to watch the surfers. At that point a distress flare was set off out to sea although we couldn't see where it came from, other than a small boat.

Nobody seemed to be doing much about it, so Sue called '000' on her mobile and was put through to Manly police. About 15 minutes later 4 police cars turned up, followed by the surf life savers. They couldn't see a problem out to sea but at least another person came up to confirm the flare. Two life savers headed out in a boat to check and met a small coastguard boat that had come from the north. We did wonder what we'd started but we presumed that people don't tend to set flares off for a laugh! There didn't seem to be a problem by the time we headed home, but then it was also a mystery where the flare had come from.