A Sunday morning stroll has never been so interesting or exciting! Around the corner from Joe and Vicky’s house, (where we stayed last night), is a river that leads out to the breakwater and beach of North Haven. So within minutes of leaving the house this morning, we were watching Dolphins making their way upstream Read more

Got to test out the new board today and it gets the thumbs up from me! We spent the morning driving north towards Port Macquarie, before coming across the point break of ‘Middle Rock Beach’. It wasn’t exactly where we had had in mind, but it looked great. Only a few surfers in and some Read more

Having been on the move in one form or another for quite a while now, it was decided that we should just stay put and relax today. We were both pretty tired (as usual) from the city pace of life, so took things easy this morning. Anyway, it’s hard to rush away, when this is Read more

There was a parrot in the camp this morning! The cheeky little fellow was after my breakfast and ingored all requests to keep out of the van! He would have landed on my shoulder had I let him and certainly wasn’t shy! We bid some fond farewells to Sydney and continued our travels northwards, feeling Read more

North Ryde, our local train station, was once again spookily deserted of people as we descended down to the platforms.. A train ride over ‘the bridge’ and a connecting bus soon put us down on the sands of one of Australia’s most famous beaches – Bondi. As far as beaches go, it was a ‘beaut’ Read more

For those with the time, inclination and motivation, there is a little bit of rock climbing to be found around the Sydney area: the best of which is at Narrabeen. There is a mix of bolted and trad climbs as well as an Australian type of bolting called carrot bolting. I’ve never come across this Read more