Superboat Grand Prix

The past weekend has been one of lovely weather and sociable evenings, with friends around for meals on Friday and Saturday nights. We had a brief trip to Freshwater beach on Saturday morning, as Sue wanted to view an apartment for one of her customers, so I went onto the beach with Rebecca and a friend of hers who had stayed the night. There was the usual activity of surfing and 'nippers' going on (children's life-saving and water skills clubs).

Sue and I then walked part of the Spit-Manly walk in the afternoon, in the reverse direction to previously, and planned it to finish at Castle Rock beach where we had a quick dip to cool off. On Sunday we had also planned to go snorkelling and wanted to try Taylors Beach (as we were also going to watch the 'Superboat Grand Prix' on the harbour). However, the snorkelling was disappointing as the water was too cloudy and the beach quite littered - one of the side bays in the harbour that collects the flotsam!

However, from there we walked 20 minutes through the bush to Bradley's Head where there was a good view of the hour long powerboat race on the harbour - the first time this has taken place here. There were 3 different classes of powerboat and the 4 big ones made a lot of noise, so there's sure to be complaints from the harbourside residents, but it was quite spectacular and certainly a novelty compared to the usual boating activity on a Sunday afternoon!