thewills'wanderings

We loved this place. I don’t know how many times Tim said he would love to live here. It’s a smallish town but still with all the shops and amenities. The beaches were incredible. Our timeshare was at Elizabeth Beach which was a beautiful beach with the clearest water ever. Tim and the girls spent a lot of time trying to improve their surfing and they really are getting better! Not quite ready for the BIG waves(Tim) but definitely improving. Tim’s getting really good at doing what all surfers do well and that is sitting out the back looking cool, occasionally chatting with other surfers. One day he spent some time out the back with the local high school girls, who spend one day a week surfing. I have to say their skills put the old boy to shame!

Another day, not sure what one because we find it hard to keep track of days, we went for a drive to check out the Seal Rocks, another mind-blowingly beautiful beach and came across a 4WD track leading down to a beach. Tim ummed and arrghed about going down it as the sand was really soft and it looked very dodgy, but as you’ve probably guessed, we did it and……yes we got stuck. No-one on the beach to save us, just us and the prospect of having to walk to get someone to tow us. Well after lots of attempts Tim let air out of the tyres and we just made it. Tim LOVED it and had all the girls chanting, “Who’s the man, who’s the man?””I’m the man, I’m the man!” It was lots of fun, especially because we got out. If we didn’t I would have been grumpy and telling Tim how foolish he had been for going down in the first place!

A huge highlight of the week was meeting an Aussie family on the beach. Well, actually Charlotte did. We were sitting on the beach and I noticed a little boy about Charlotte’s age playing near us. I suggested she go and play with him. Of course being the social butterfly that she is, she was off in a flash. They played and played and I eventually got speaking to his Mum. They have recently moved to Forster from Melbourne and have 4 boys similar in age to our girls. They were really friendly and invited us to their house for a BBQ. We had a great night getting to know them. At first the kids were all really quiet with each other, you know that girl and boy thing, but after dinner we looked upstairs to the playroom where they all were and we could see(and hear!)our girls doing the haka to the boys. Very cool, you go girls! They were having lots of fun teasing each other about their accents and just hanging out. It was nice for the girls, to have some other kids to hang out with. It’s become a bit of a standard joke now that whenever we see other kids in the campground , Tim and I say, “there’s some kids, why don’t you go and play?”It works with Charlotte, but the others just look at us and say, ”Hey, look Mum and Dad, there’s some adults, why don’t you go and talk?”

So, on Friday we loaded up the caravan again and hit the road, bound for Sydney. We spent a night just north of Sydney and this was the first time we’ve had to pull out our sweatshirts. It actually felt a bit cold! Quite nice for a change.

After a successful navigation into Sydney, free of domestic disputes, we set up camp on Saturday in Lane Cove Tourist Park about 10kms from Sydney CBD in a really nice national park campground. We decided to spend 3 nights there to catch the main Sydney sights. Sydney highlights coming soon. We promise, no more gorgoeus white sandy beach photos for a while!!