Blogs from New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 1120

Days 11 - 21 Day 11 - Crescent Head Day 12 - Hat Head Day 13 - Scotts Head sorry for no detail for the previous 3 days - I'm going to have to figure out how to remember interesting items to jot down here. I keep a 'daily log' on a voice recorder - not a notebook Day 14 - Coffs Harbor I stayed underneath the old pier - the day was rainy and the pier dripped all day, it was a very uncomfortable stay (not to mention the paddle the following day). Day 15-16 Woolgoolga The paddle from Coffs to here was horrific. The wind was from the NE, though the real problem was the blue-bottles - I've never seen so many in the water. On this short stretch (about 15 or 20 miles) ... read more

We walked along Belongil Beach passed the hippies reading poetry to themselves into town & met up with the Blackdog Surfing lot. There was eight of us surfing today along with two instructors, Jason & Mark. Once we had applied gallons of sunscreen & picked up a rash shirt we headed in the van down to the Pass, just a little east of Main Beach. The beach was sandy & waves were breaking quite far out & cruising gently to the shore. We began with a bit of a stretch & then learnt the basics of getting up onto a surfboard. Then it was time to get out into the water, a few of the girls who had been surfing before, headed off with Mark & the rest of us waded out with Jason. After a ... read more

Today saw me leaving Sydney behind and heading north up the East coast to Newcastle. lovely little town but not a great deal going on but I didn go for a curry with the girls from my dorm. Another Irish bar, another beer, another late night. nice uneventful day!... read more

Vrijdag naar Sydney gevlogen en in een hostel in Bondi Beach aangekomen. Deze dag maar even rustig aan gedaan, lekker op het strand gelegen en gezwommen. S' avonds lekker op het dak hier gezeten, ze hebben een groot terras met zicht op de zee en de wijk,erg mooi om te zien. Met een aantal mensen zitten praten tot om 22.00 uur het dak dicht ging, daarna met een nederlandse naar een lokaal cafe gegaan, gezellig een biertje gedaan, prima avond. Zaterdag redelijk op tijd de stad in gegaan (10.00 uur), het weer was geweldig, veel zon. Gelijk begonnen bij het beroemde Sydney Opera House (met die mooie bogen). Heb een rondleiding gehad, erg interessant. Zou 4 jaar duren en 7 miljoen dollar (eind jaren 50) om te bouwen en dat werd uiteindelijk 14 jaar en 102 ... read more

I have just spent all day uploading pics on Char's comp and putting them in order with Kristen's. I have them all up on my MSN space. So if you have MSN and I'm not on your msn list already, you can add me (becca_06@hotmail.com) and then click on my contact to view all the pics. (Aunts and Uncles you may want to ask your kids about this one). Alternately, you can try accessing them at http://spaces.msn.com/becca06cricket/. You'll be prompted for a password, so if you don't have an msn account, you may have to make up a password and then you can view them. Again...ask your kids. I'll try uploading them onto this blog as well, but it takes an awfully long time and I think there may be a limit of photos that I ... read more