Hawkesbury River

Hello hello hello! It has been a while since we've spoken and I don't know where to begin with what has been going on here. The number of people living in 597 New South Head Rd has been reduced back to four as all the holiday visitors have come and gone. So things are slowing back down again here. We are currently in a stage of shutting down the engines and recharging our batteries before one final big push of fun and excitement during our last couple weeks in Sydney. That's right we are leaving Sydney and soon! The four of us have had a great time in Sydney and we have definitely used the time here to acclimate ourselves to life down under. But we are getting to the point where we have seen most everything this great city has to offer. We feel we are ready to go out and begin exploring new territory.

So by the end of the month I will be leaving Rose Bay. My mum is visiting starting the 24th of Feb. I will show her the sites here and then fly with her up to Cairns to get a little taste of the Great Barrier Reef. I intend to hang out there after she leaves and hopefully get in a little bit more diving and adventuring. By mid March I will fly back down to Byron Bay to meet up with the rest of the rescuers before we fly out to New Zealand. Thats right the big NZ! So a lot of fun stuff will be starting up at the end of February so bear with us for this next month when we will be doing slightly less adventuring and more planning of our travels. While I am up in Cairns, Jesse and Erin will remain in Sydney for another week or two before they head up to Byron Bay before NZ. Taylor has some family visiting at the end of this month too so he might be traveling around with them a bit as well and it is possible I will see some of him up in Cairns too. Things are about to get pretty crazy around here and we hope to start getting you posts from all around Oz as the rescuers divide and conquer for a little while.



Anyways thats the tentative plan. I hope it makes some sort of sense to you readers. We are still in the planning phase so everything is pretty amorphous to us right now. So now that I have covered what will happen or might happen or what I expect could happen, lets go over what has happened. Last week Taylor, a few buddies from Taylor's work, Chandra, and I took a little excursion to the mighty Hawkesbury River. We rode a train for about an hour outside of Sydney to this tiny little town on the side of a river. The Hawkesbury is a nice little river that runs eventually into the Sydney harbour. I don't know exactly how close it is to the harbour but the water was much saltier than any river I have ever been in. It didn't feel like straight salt water but it felt much more like ocean water than river water. Anyways we got out to the river and walked twenty minutes or so to a boat rental place. We rented out the Brooklyn Central for the day.



We puttered around the river all day spying jellyfish, climbing rocks, relaxing on beaches, and playing games. The weather was sweltering and captain Taylor



took one for the team steering the boat in the full sun (the rest of us hung out under the canopy) for most of the day. His skin has been pealing off by the fistful for about a week now. Wonderful day overall though.

So thats whats going on with us. What's going on with all of you people back in the states? We miss you all and hope your February is bright and sunny like ours is. Before I say goodbye I want to remind you of all the extra pics I have posted online which you can find through the little BLindy's Pics link on the side of the page.



Love
B