Caringbah, Cronulla, and Sydney
The following images come from our week-long stay in Sydney before flying back to Switzerland. Ch. and I had gotten a bit tired of keeping the journal, so anything from now on has been added from memory.
We stayed for 3 or 4 days in a rather expensive,
remote campground in the suburb of Cronulla, just south of Sydney.
The campground was directly under the path of airplanes landing at
Sydney International Airport, so it was often quite noisy. There
was a beach nearby with a view of downtown Sydney, but the water
was a bit dirty with seaweed and junk floating in it, so we never
went for a swim there.
We spent our time
bicycling around Cronulla, going to the beach, and visiting Sydney.
We tried to hitch up Kathy (a friend of mine from my vacation in
Greece) and Mitchell (a friend of Christiane from previous holidays
in Australia), but they seemed to be very dense. We all had supper
together in the revolving restaurant in downtown Sydney and ate
roast kangaroo for the last time. When we questioned them, we
discovered that they were both working 50 hours per week, but they
didn't see anything wrong with that. Doh!
We weren't too lucky that week in Sydney. It
rained most of the time and our tent was blown over during a storm
on our last night in Cronulla. Manley Beach is pretty depressing in
the rain.
We took the ferry to go to Manley
and back.
And we saw the standard tourist views.
We
were pretty impressed by the gigantic mutant turtles humping on the
pier.
But hey, if you've seen one big, modern city,
you've seen them all. Vancouver looks like this too.
Our saddest chore was to say good-bye to our
bicycles. They busted our balls, but they got us through in the
end. I felt like I was chaining up my faithful dog to a tree and
leaving it forever when I left the bikes at Kathy's parents' house.
She offered to sell them for us when we left, but so far only one
of the bikes has been sold. This is the ad that I placed in the
"Trading Post":
Raleigh 1800 bikes, good condition, used for Perth to Sydney journey. 42cm frame, computer, $300. 54cm frame, new tires, wheels, tubes, $250. rossen@planet.ch CARINGBAH 02-9523 6857