Good Friday and a great Aussie BBQ

Harry's Cafe de Wheels. Famous Aussie meat pies!

Charleston style houses in Sydney.

Two of the guests (Jo from Durham UK and Camile from France)  at Eva’s have decided to have a BBQ to celebrate Good Friday, and they anticipated about 10-12 people signing up. In the end there were closer to 35. It was $8 AUS each and you bought your own drink. 

During the day almost everyone pitched in to prepare the food. We had chicken kebabs, Kangaroo Kebabs and various salads and pastas as well as some beautifully presented snacks. There are quite a few people from Germany and Holland, one American girl who has just been on Antarctica for 4 months, and a couple that had arrived from Frankfurt that morning.

I also talked with a girl from Auckland NZ who works for a hotel chain and is setting up offices in Sydney. Lots of the people had been to NZ and universally enjoyed the experience as I did. David was an English guy in his late 40s who had given up work for a while (worked in fashion I think) and had been traveling for a couple of months. 

I was impressed as he had all of his possessions in a backpack and said it was 9kg total. Lessons to be learned there for sure.

Bondi and the coast

Thursday was a fantastic day for the weather. I decided that I would take the walk along the coast from the famous Bondi Beach south to Koogee.

It is purported to be 6km, but it certainly felt like more than that!

I again experienced the weathering on the rocks and some very beautiful scenery both from a geological and a human form point of view!

I got to Bondi around 11.30 and decided on a light lunch. It was a sandwich of smoked salmon, avocado, and thin sliced red onions. It was very good and not too heavy. In Bondi there is a place called The Iceberg and it has an outdoor swimming pool that is right by the ocean and is replenished by the waves splashing in to the pool. 

The walk follows the cliffs and beach and at some points there is a sort of cantilevered walkway that works it’s way around a large cemetery. 

There are some narrow bays with quite small beaches but what looked like good surf as long as you were skilled enough to stay off the rocks. There were plenty of people out their testing their skills.

If you go to Sydney this is certainly something I would recommend. If I were doing it again I would go from Koogee to Bondi, and then take the bus on the Watson Bay to see “The Gap” or the entrance to Sydney Harbour that I saw on Wednesday. The bus fare is only $2 AUS or I am sure you can buy something in between that and the $18 Day pass that works for everything. It is a fun and easy way to get around, and there are no hassles parking etc.

A small rock cairn or statue close to the cemetery. Quite spontaneous!

The furthest point you can see is North Bondi where my walk started.

 I have been gone for about 85 days now and have actually only driven for 4 of them as I came back from Queenstown. I really do not miss it!