Penrith (for Feb. 13)

We checked out his morning and went to the nearby internet shop to post our blog. Pretty good deal - $4.50 for 1.5 hours. From there we went to MacQuarrie’s Point, where we were last night, to take some more pictures. Unfortunately, my camera batteries died and I didn’t get all I wanted, but here is one of Celeste at Mrs. MacQuarrie’s Chair. Mrs. M was the wife of the first governor. He had some convict workers carve a chair out of the rock for her in 1816 because she liked the view of the harbour from there.


Next stop was Bondi Beach. Apparently you haven’t been to Sydney unless you have been there, so we went. I even went in the water! It is fairly shallow and the waves break in front of the beach. There were a lot of people body surfing and just playing in the waves. It was a lot of fun. They say the main action is on the weekend, but we are more interested in nearby parking, so Monday was fine with us. There were quite a few people there for a Monday. I can’t imagine a weekend crowd. And yes, some of the girls are topless. Celeste erased my 102 pictures though!



Here is what some guy drove to the beach. You don’t see a Lamborghini in Regina every day – especially not in February. The guy noticed me admiring it and offered to take me for a ride. I said, “No thanks. I just had a ride in a Porsche a few days ago.”


We left about 3:30 because we wanted to beat the rush hour traffic enroute to Penrith, west of Sydney and at the foot of the Blue Mountains, tomorrow’s goal. It still took us an hour and a half to get across the city through some fairly heavy traffic. We don’t always get a great view from out hotel room window. Here is tonight’s view – a painted concrete wall.

At dusk we were again serenaded by a huge flock of those white cockatoos. What a racket! There were a few hundred of them in a clump of trees in front of the hotel.