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Published: February 24th 2024
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This morning a friend tagged us with the NSW Health advice that they are advising people who have been in Sydney CBD area in the past 10 days to be on alert for symptoms of Legionnaire’s disease after seven people who have developed the disease spent time in the area in the last three weeks. Oh well, wait and see, I guess. At least it is not contagious person to person so we don’t have to isolate because we may have been exposed!!
So, South West Rocks, why South West Rocks? We really enjoyed Sawtell when we visited last year and we could have returned to Sawtell. However, when we were in NSW in 2019 the staff member at the Visitor Information Centre in Muswellbrook extolled the virtues of South West Rocks so we decided when booking accommodation along the coast to spend a few days in this highly recommended location. With yesterday’s lunch catch up it proved to be a good call since we would not have arrived in Sawtell last night until well after 8.00pm.
Feeling fit and healthy, despite all the dire health warnings, we set off on foot this morning to walk the Trial Bay
Front Beach towards the gaol at the Laggers Point end of the bay. The sun was shining, and it was warm enough for shorts and paddling, but the breeze was brisk making it difficult to keep our hats on!
After we returned to the motel, we drove to the Coles on the outskirts of town to buy more water and a few other supplies. On our way back to the motel we bought some lunch at Shoeys Bakery to eat on the patio overlooking the pool.
After lunch – the requisite one hour after eating our lunch! – we ventured back down to the beach to swim at the patrolled beach at the mouth of Saltwater Creek. With rocky outcrops either side of the patrolled area it seems that locals call it The Wedge.
After a bit more relaxing on the patio at the motel we walked back into town at dinner time. On our way we saw several (five?) kookaburras which was lovely. They all seemed to be heading from the beach reserve towards the hinterland for the night. They are quite territorial so assume they were a family group. There didn’t seem to be any
aggro like it was a pair chasing interlopers out of their territory.
We went to the dinner at the Seabreeze Beach Hotel this evening. Extremely busy on a Wednesday night! We found a table and Bernie went to buy drinks and order food. The bar staff warned of a ONE HOUR wait for our food!! We were settling in for a long wait until our dinner arrived, but it was delivered to our table within 20 minutes. The kitchen must have caught up a bit since they told the bar staff to warn patrons about having to wait up to an hour for their meals?
We finished our dinner and headed out onto Livingstone Street. The rainbow lorikeets were settling down to roost in the palms in the park opposite and the noise they were making was deafening. I think there were a few cicadas singing too so the Australian animals and insects were providing quite the soundtrack for the people staying in the caravan park. Hopefully after dark it was quieter for them?
We took a twilight walk around to the Back Creek before heading back to the motel … via Chillati Gelato. The gelato shop
is very popular in the evenings, so we had to queue for quite some time before it was our turn to purchase our cones. They didn’t have my favourite flavour (coffee) so I had to settle for malteaser which was … OK, but not destined to become my new favourite. While we were sitting eating our ice-creams at the outdoor tables at Shoeys Bakery just along the street it started to drizzle and of course we had come out without an umbrella. Fortunately, it was only a brief shower, and we didn’t get soaked walking ‘home’.
Steps: 18,376 (11.71kms)
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