Monday, December 12, 2005

At one with nature...

So with all the time on our hands...and it being summer in the middle of December...we decided to get away from the city and kick-back and booze-it-up in nature for the weekend. Went out to Pittwater Youth Hostel on Morning Bay, just inside Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park outside of Sydney. Literally just a large cottage on a hill, overlooking the bay. The whole place is completely open, so you're eating dinner outside on the picnic tables with wallabies, possums, cockatoos, iguanas, magpies and a million other creatures. In fact, Dumpy had quite the chat with a resident cockatoo over dinner:



Our first day there, we had the place completely to ourselves since none of the other guests had arrived yet. We just lounged around, took naps in the hammocks and were amazed by how close we were to the animals! Our first glimpse was a wallaby with a little joey (baby wallaby..ps wallabies are like kangaroos just smaller in size) in her pouch. Also, for some odd reason there was a rather yummy looking turkey walking around the camp.

Anyways, our second day there we went on a mission to find a beach...so we ended up taking a Water Taxi (yes, you read that correctly) to Elvina North Wharf and spending the day on a completely secluded beach which we had all to ourselves. Ended the day napping, sitting, reading on the Morning Bay Wharf dock and taking in the ocean. The weekend was amazing and I definately recommend Pittwater to anyone who visits Sydney. It's just a nice getaway it you want to bum around, soak up some sun and get away from the city.

By the way...I've decided I want to eventually buy a house in Morning Bay...the place is just beautiful and it's definately the lifestyle I want. So we checked out some house prices when we got back home and found something for $399,000 Australian (which is like $347,000 Canadian)...but of course prices go up to like $2.2 million for gorgeous mansions. So that's the plan....we'll see!

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3 Comments:

At December 14, 2005 4:08 PM , Blogger averagejoe said...

You should just buy the house with US dollars, it would be way cheaper ;)


Tell Anand to blog more. I read your blog just to keep up on him!

 
At December 14, 2005 8:49 PM , Blogger Jinkerjacket said...

Haha this is true....

Yah Anand is just too dumpy now....his fingers are too big for the keyboard so he has problems typing...hence the infrequent updates on his blogs...but I will definately tell him to make an attempt...

 
At December 16, 2005 10:25 PM , Blogger Jinkerjacket said...

heahe I've always loved nature...so long as I'm enclosed in some kind of shelter when I'm sleeping :oD I'll be in desperate need of not only a lawn boy..but also a boat boy...so the position will be reserved for you fake e ;o)

 

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