Thoughts And Recollections Of A Tree Spirit

Sunset at North Head & a Bandicoot

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

On Sunday evening Mat and myself had an early tea and then decided to go for a little drive to investigate our local patch. Our intention was to find a nice secluded spot with a view to park up and chill out for a bit whilst taking in the scenery. We drove around for a while, not finding anywhere that quite fitted our requirement when Mat had an idea. He plugged something into Mayweed, our Navman and told me to just follow the instructions (I was driving).

After driving a fair way and eventually ending up in Manly I continued until we came to a road with a big sign telling people to drive very carefully due to the local endangered bandicoot population. After following the little winding road for some time over many speed bumps we eventually came to the intended spot. There were several car parks all overlooking the most amazing view of the coast and Sydney in the distance. Even more spectacular was that we had arrived just in time for the sunset and I promptly got out my camera to take some pictures.

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New Year 2008 in Sydney

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Well, we travelled to Sydney via the ferry from Parramatta and arrived in Circular Key around 5.30pm. Festivities were just starting to get under way with more and more people arriving by the minute, all either on their way to pre-arranged places with ticket entry only, or just finding a spot to park themselves for the night. We started off by getting ourselves a luxury ice cream and just standing for a while watching all the hustle and bustle around us.

Ice creams finished we set off to find a convenience store from which to stock up on munchie food and drink for the night. This important task accomplished we then made our way over to the north side of Sydney Harbour Bridge where we had spotted a nice little green patch of grass as we went past in the ferry. We decided the best plan of action was to park ourselves somewhere with a good view of the bridge, not too near to Circular Key that we would be sardined in with millions of people, but still close enough that we could feel part of the festivities.

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17.01.2008 Aussie places/info of interest, Personal, Pictures 2 Comments