It’s a bit of a tug to drop in at beautiful places like Refuge Bay and then leave after a night, but we are comforting ourselves that we will have time to explore when we noodle our way back down the coast. And I mean NOODLE. Once we got out to sea, leaving Pittwater behind …
Month: May 2017
The sail from Manly to Pittwater was pretty easy (see! look at that!! I am not consistently miserable!!) – we had good wind for the first hour or two. It took about three and a half hours to get to Pittwater – the wind was dropping as we got closer. It had been decided to …
Belatedly, I have realised that the area we are in is called the ‘Northern Beaches’. A few years ago longtime friends of our disentangled themselves from Melbourne, where they’d lived for more than 20 years, and upped and left for Narrabeen – which is apparently not too far from here. Their move perplexed me – …
The glory of the morning was our visit to an op-shop in Glebe where I snaffled a possum merino jumper for $18. THIS EXACT JUMPER!! We had left rather late and noodled our way through Glebe: light-rail, train and a bus got us to Bondi Beach. Excuse me if I don’t rhapsodise about the beach …
FINDER’S KEEPERS MARKET, OPAL CARDS AND TELESCOPES {NOTE: – I am happy to report that this Mother’s Day was a vast improvement upon the previous one.} The decadence that is waking up on the water in the middle of Sydney on a sun drenched autumn morning. I like it. M keeps telling me we can …
After leaving Bermagui we pulled into Jervis Bay when it all got too hard. Had to motor for a few hours in order to get in before sundown. In the morning, we had new neighbours! We spent two nights there, and planned to leave at about 9.30am on the morning of 9 May. However, the …