Sydney to Surf School

Sunday August 28th

Some bits of this blog will be text only until we get somewhere where Paul can get his laptop onto a wireless network, and I can use the PC to add the pictures. I have a 3G SIM for the iPad, and I can get pictures onto the iPad from my camera. But Blogger doesn't seem to work terribly well with the iPad, and it can't see the iPad's pictures at all. I haven't been able to make the suggested solution, using Photobucket, work either. I need to spend some time on a wireless network to work out how to do that, so for the moment the iPad is doing the text and the PC will provide the pictures later.

We were picked up early this morning and started off up the east coast of Australia for a 450 Km drive along the Pacific Highway. It was a reasonably interesting drive, first through the Sydney suburbs, then through forests of Eucalyptus and grasslands. We saw cattle and horses, and some pine forests obviously being used for timber. We made a lunch stop for a pie - Australians are very keen on pies. Later we stopped at the 'Big Banana', a banana plantation which is also a kind of amusement park.

We just climbed the hill and looked at the view across the Tasman sea, which was beautiful.

I had a chocolate frozen banana - I can never resist a new experience.

About 4.30 we arrived at the surf camp. We are staying in little cottages made from shipping containers! I have a friend who will be particularly interested in the picture of that, since she and I stayed in something not unlike it once in Canada.

It is perfectly clean, and has bunk beds, a little kitchen area, and a little bathroom with shower, basin and loo. There is a very nice beach with a bit of surf, not too much.

I'm writing this sitting on a chair outside the shipping container. Supper is at 6, and some kind person is to wake us at 6 tomorrow for breakfast, as our surfing lesson is at 7! I am far from certain I am going to learn to surf, in fact I am far from certain I am even going to try.