Onwards and Downwards

Before leaving Pearl Beach we spent a day in world famous Sydney Harbour doing many of the things that tourists do. By then the sun (yes, the sun at last!) and heat caught up with us and it turned out to be an exhausting), but marvelous, day (too big a city and so little time!!). It really is a busy, fascinating port. The Opera House, botanical gardens, a tour of a destroyer and submarine, and a ride to Manly Beach took most of the day. By then we could only think "where's the ice cream?".
     The following day we moved down the coast to sleepy Sussex Inlet to visit friends and were welcomed with a boat tour of the town's canals and local beaches. They own a caravan park there (in Canadian read trailer park). Talk about a nice location! After being fed and watered we puttered on through Kangaroo Valley to Goulburn where Nancy taught little Aussies in 1992.
     We dropped by the school where she revisited her classroom (she still refers to it as hers -- sort of like the house that WE own) and HER house where she temporarily lived for a year. Once again we were offered wonderful Australian hospitality in Goulburn and that evening were witness to a very rare thunder and lightening show accompanied by torrential rainfall and high winds to the point where the windows of the house buckled. However everybody seemed rather typically nonplussed about it. As a matter of fact table discussion of the Australian/Indian cricket match of several days ago raised blood pressure more than the storm!
     We've organized stops at hostels for the next three or four days before we tackle the Nullabour Plains. Bye for now; we'll be in touch when we determine what internet access we'll have.