Inspired by last week's trip to a new beach, we decided to try out another new beach this weekend. We went to Palm Beach, which is rumoured to be where Sydney's rich and famous hang out. Palm Beach is on the North shore of Sydney (we're in the South East), so it was a bit of hike up the coast to get there. To break up the trip, we stopped along the way at a mini-golf pirate ship (who can resist a mini-golf course on a pirate ship??), stopped again at Vic's current work site - an amazing house on Whale Beach. Gus and I were quite impressed at the views and the sheer size of the house. And then one last stop to pick up some picnic eats.
We had another great beach day, with plenty of swimming, picnic-ing and exploring of rock pools. The area around Palm Beach is quite beautiful, with cliffs and rainforests and beautiful ocean beaches. Sometimes my head spins at the natural beauty that we're surrounded by on a daily basis.
The very next day (Sunday), we heard a report that a boy was attacked by a shark that morning when he was surfing with his dad at Avalon beach, just two beaches down from Palm Beach. Yikes! Although much less dramatic and not requiring surgery, Vic had his own run-in with a sea creature when he got stung by a bluebottle at Maroubra Beach where we went for a quick swim on Sunday. When we first arrived in Sydney, I was talking to an Australian about my spider fears, and he said that it is very unlikely that we'll ever get bitten by a spider, but highly likely that at least one of us will get stung by a bluebottle during our stay here. After seeing what Vic went through, I hope neither Gus or I ever get stung, because Vic assured us that if we did get stung, we would cry like babies.
I ran out of batteries in my camera this weekend, so just a couple of pics for you this week:
Mardi Gras, which we celebrated with pancakes, ice cream and real maple syrup, of course.
My one and only pic of Palm Beach. Beautiful, dontcha think?
5 comments:
I'm glad that Vic was there to take the jellyfish sting for the family. Those little suckers are EVIL. Also, I can't believe I missed pancake Tuesday! Thanks for the reminder; I'm going to eat pancakes for dinner tonight.
Hi Neil: I know! I'm hoping that's the one and only blue bottle sting for the lof of us. you can still see the tentacle marks on his arms where it stung him! it looks nasty.
When we were in Queensland - and just arrived - a family approached me with their 10 year old daughter who had been stung by a blue bottle. It was on her stomach - and looked intense. Everything was purple. I didn't know what to recommend as we had only just arrived. I guess I looked like an Aussie, that's why they asked me.
We went to Palm Beach-- so pretty- but took us forever in Saturday traffic to get there!
It is very cool how every beach is so different right down to the sand.
Oh yeah, and there were millions of bluebottles at Bondi Beach when we went once, and we didn't have a clue until much, much later- we lucked out.
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