The start of Spring?
I had a double-dose of being spoilt over the past few days, with my birthday followed closely by Father's Day yesterday. I took the obligatory 'day off work' for my birthday as Sue and I had planned to go on a Hawkesbury River cruise, but the good Spring weather at the start of the week had gone and although the day was dry we decided to postpone the trip.
We therefore explored a few areas of the inner harbour that we hadn't been to before and then had a Thai lunch in Neutral Bay, followed by a drink at The Oaks, which is the first time we'd been back there since 1993! Caroline was then working in the evening and Laura was also off shopping for several hours, but we managed to fit in some present opening and birthday cake before they had to go!
The weather on Saturday was terrible, with torrential rain for 24 hours but it had remarkably cleared again for Sunday as the day dawned sunny and warm. Although Spring has officially arrived, the temperatures are still low here and the nights remain chilly - it's been reported that August has been the coldest month in Sydney for over 60 years (which is probably all down to us being here now!).
After last year's 'family day out' on Father's Day it didn't work out that way yesterday as Caroline was again working at her store and Laura had studying to catch up on, so Sue and I coaxed Rebecca to join us for another exploration to the south of the city. We followed the route out of the city that we had taken with the motorhome several years ago but then turned into the Royal National Park (the second oldest in the world).
There are a number of roads crossing the park, either across the high ground or through the valleys and we also visited one of the beaches which had wild waves crashing in. There was lots of bushwalking potential here, but we continued south along the coast road, stopping at a scenic viewpoint where there were numerous hang-gliders and parasailers jumping off the cliffs and floating out over the sea.
We then drove along (and walked) the new sea cliff bridge (seen in the photo above) which was built to avoid the regular rock falls onto the original road and is now a popular location for car advertisements! We had reached our furthest point when we had another 'petrol problem' for the second week running - we had noticed that the petrol gauge wasn't moving from half full, so we weren't sure how much we had left and had to hunt down a petrol station to make sure, before heading back into Sydney.
We therefore explored a few areas of the inner harbour that we hadn't been to before and then had a Thai lunch in Neutral Bay, followed by a drink at The Oaks, which is the first time we'd been back there since 1993! Caroline was then working in the evening and Laura was also off shopping for several hours, but we managed to fit in some present opening and birthday cake before they had to go!
The weather on Saturday was terrible, with torrential rain for 24 hours but it had remarkably cleared again for Sunday as the day dawned sunny and warm. Although Spring has officially arrived, the temperatures are still low here and the nights remain chilly - it's been reported that August has been the coldest month in Sydney for over 60 years (which is probably all down to us being here now!).
After last year's 'family day out' on Father's Day it didn't work out that way yesterday as Caroline was again working at her store and Laura had studying to catch up on, so Sue and I coaxed Rebecca to join us for another exploration to the south of the city. We followed the route out of the city that we had taken with the motorhome several years ago but then turned into the Royal National Park (the second oldest in the world).
There are a number of roads crossing the park, either across the high ground or through the valleys and we also visited one of the beaches which had wild waves crashing in. There was lots of bushwalking potential here, but we continued south along the coast road, stopping at a scenic viewpoint where there were numerous hang-gliders and parasailers jumping off the cliffs and floating out over the sea.
We then drove along (and walked) the new sea cliff bridge (seen in the photo above) which was built to avoid the regular rock falls onto the original road and is now a popular location for car advertisements! We had reached our furthest point when we had another 'petrol problem' for the second week running - we had noticed that the petrol gauge wasn't moving from half full, so we weren't sure how much we had left and had to hunt down a petrol station to make sure, before heading back into Sydney.
posted by Hawkins Family @ 9:18 am
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