Bottany Bay

A beautiful morning and it is warm early again. We are off to a local park near by in Botany Bay called Gym point. It is not far it has a boat ramp with the most amount of boat trailers I have ever seen. Kirsten & I try some fishing it is pretty quite. Kirsten gives up but I keep trying. There are lots of little hits. Then a couple of big hits and I’m on it’s a Trevalley and he puts up a good fight. I get him and he is a little beauty 30cm which is legal size. Carol took over Kirsten’s line and only took 30 seconds to catch a fish a Bream. He is to small and we caught a couple more of them. A school must of swum past because we got some good hits for about 5 minutes but could not land another.
We had lunch here on the BBQ it is a cool little spot on the Hacking River. We had some nice smoked Cod for tea.

Today we are off South to the Royal National Park. It is the oldest in Australia and hugs the rugged coast in between Sydney and Wollongong. It is packed and the drive around until we reach a picnic spot in a bay on the beach. It is a bay with a river leading into the bay. The Kids and I climb around the bay on the rocks the view is awesome and there are millions of rock crabs. We have some lunch and drive home. It is Pizza tonight for tea and Big Al’s deliver us a

Carol flies on to Brisbane today so we are organised early and off to the Airport, not much traffic so it is a quick drive today. We have a coffee a chat and of course Tina has a bit of a cry. We are not sure when we will see Carol again it could be up to 5 months.
We head back to the CP and get ready to go to the movies. We see Monsters V’s Aliens which is quite funny. Not so funny are the prices but that’s life.


Today we are heading into the city so we walked to the train line. It is closed but they have express buses running to the city instead. We got off at central station and caught the train to Circular Quay it’s a little like the underground and the kids really enjoyed it. It actually looks like it will rain today and it starts to sprinkle while we walk around the Opera House. Then we are off to the Harbour Bridge to do the Pylon climb. The view of the harbour is great. Back to the Quay and we are on a ferry to the Maritime Museum. Jason is most excited because the naval ship is called the Vampire as well as the submarine and a replica of the Endeavour, it is a great ship. By the time we get back to the Quay it has started really raining and I mean raining. We catch the train back to Central station and then the express bus back to Miranda it is pissing down. We get back to Miranda and then walk, well run back to the CP in the rain. We all got soaked but is wasn’t cold.