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| Goodbye Manly Ferry |
This morning we were up bright and early as usual - haven't managed to get past 5am yet! We had to say our goodbyes to Lindsey and Stuart as they went to work and then finished our packing, hoping we remembered everything before closing the door on their flat for the last time. Have I mentioned how nice their flat is? It is on the 4th floor of an apartment building and is full of huge glass windows with wonderful views over the wharf. It doesn't come cheap by any means, but it is a wonderful place, they have had to furnish it themselves which must have been a pain and expensive! It is really well laid out as well with huge amounts of storage, a separate laundry room and a balcony overlooking the wharf with a BBQ (we were going to have a BBQ but the weather didn't allow). They also have a communal swimming pool and table tennis, once again we didn't get a chance to use these with the weather being so rubbish.
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| Driving over Sydney Harbour Bridge |
We walked down to the Wharf and had our last ferry trip to Circular Quay where we got the bus to the car hire place, where we picked up our silver Ford Falcon and drove out of Sydney (across the Harbour Bridge of course) towards the Freeway and up North. Unfortunately the Freeway was closed where we wanted to join it and we got stuck in a traffic jam all through the Northern suburbs - not much fun. Once we were on the Freeway, the traffic disappeared and we motored up north. In fact sometimes it felt like we were the only ones on the road.
We had lunch in a pie shop on the side of the road in Newcastle and the carried on. We got to our campsite: Lani's Holiday Island around 4 and got the keys for our home for the next couple of nights. Quite a nice cabin: called Wattle Villa it has separate bedrooms for us and Tom - will be nice as we have been sleeping in the same room since we got here, a bathroom and a fully equipped kitchen. Not bad for the price of less than a motel room. We headed straight out to a supermarket, found a huge Woolies so went there and stocked up for the next couple of days (one thing that is cheap here is meat so we got fillet steak and lamb steaks). I even found Chris's Avocado Dip - something I lived off when backpacking - so got that for old time's sake.
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| Wattle Villa - our home for 2 nights |
Came home but couldn't get in our villa. The key just went round and round but the door didn't ope. The site had to send a maintenance man round with a box of tools and even then it took about half an hour to open it up - oops! Not our fault.
So steak for dinner, bed for Tom (in his bunk bed - very exciting) and collapse on the sofa for us!
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