The following blog post was written from the airplane **
Wow! The blog is really behind, I’m sorry! So much stuff to do in the last few days, and so little time. I think I abandoned you all about a week and a bit ago. There’s been adventures galore. Mainly Pete and I tried to shove more and more stuff in before I headed off. The last adventure I think I let you in on was the hike we went on with Jenny, Bernie and Pat. It couldn’t have been a more beautiful day, we got up early and headed to Barrenjoey where after we finished climbing the great pyramid of stairs—oops I mean the hill we reached a beautiful old lighthouse that had a fantastic view. Very old timey type charm. Plus, the tour guides gave us candy so how can you go wrong? Standing at the top of the lighthouse was surreal, beautiful and very, very blue. Australian beaches make a pretty picture. We hunkered down for a picnic lunch of pure deliciousness, and then headed to a second walk. The Warriewood Wetlands was the second destination where we saw some very cute and very pretty birds. *Authors note* I’m “blogging” from the airplane right now, and it’s too dark (and I might be too lazy..) to dig out the bird book to get the ID, but we saw a whole bunch of swamp hens (?) working as a group to feed one nest of babies. It was beautiful to see that kind of team work. I guess it happens all the time in nature, but it’s the first time I’ve gotten to have a first hand experience of it. It was beautiful. That was a really, really fun day. So much perfectness packed into one day.
Pete & I ventured out to Patonga early evening the next day. We were hoping to sight some birds, frogs...goodies like that. Okay, maybe we were hoping to get some dee-licious fish and chips, but it turned out the place was closed. Awash with disappointment, no seriously, we were bummed but we continued on our walk. As we walked along the beach we saw a sea-eagle, camera’s out we were super eager to see it. Standing there, I see something below the eagle in the water,...fins! Pete puts his worlds-biggest-lens to work and we zoom in on the fins. DOLPHINS!!! Or should i say dol-fins? :b It was beautiful, there were three. We caught site of their noses a few times, as they busily explored the cove. The exciting bit came later when the Sea-Eagle made a glorious attempt, maybe a little too confident of an attempt at dive-bombing the dolphins. His eyes were bigger than his belly? The night was tied up with some pretty long exposure shots overlooking Patonga, and then some Aussie Micky D’s. AND DONUTS. Mmmmm doooohnutttts. *drool*
* Australia has Krispy Kreme here. No fair!
Adventures to follow involve my first ever adventure in camping. Pete & I adventured for a few days up to Port Macquarie where his grandparents live. A very, very beautiful area. But to be fair, I’ve yet to see an ugly place in Australia. I think it’s just solid beauty here, and the company just enriched the beauty! We camped in along the boardwalk in a campsite that was perfect for me, first time camper. Full facilities of running water, and no portapotties. I also “helped” set up the tent. I had the pleasure of meeting three great people as well. Pete’s grandparents were so kind, and treated us to a delicious lunch at the Rainforest cafe, which was scrumpdiddlyumptious. I also got to admire all their original artwork in their home, including a beautiful picture of Gang-Gang Cockatoos. A parrot that is definitely on my life list.
I still have so much to tell you about the last week in Australia. But I want to write about some things that are fresh in my mind still. More blogging to come!
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