Sydney & Hardys Bay

Thursday, 8 April 2021

After a relatively easy drive back to Sydney, we had a lovely evening with more old friends then spent half of the next day in Lane Cove with Tracy and Paul.  After heavy overnight rain we headed out early to do one of our old regular runs around the Lane Cove River:

Down from Paul and Tracy's house 

Around the golf course 

Through Fairylands - the site of a long lost amusement park 

Back over the river at Epping Road (hello Sydney!) 

Back down by the river before climbing up the hill to home. It was delightful.

After we stopped sweating buckets, we headed out to check out the upgraded Lane Cove Shops - we stepped out of the new carpark into another world - one where the daggy old carpark had been replaced with lots of trendy shops and green space and play areas - even BBQs. The 'old' Lane Cove was still visible at the edges but it was pretty disorienting at first.  Very nice though!

While we did that the kids went to IKEA - without us!! Tiia has her Ps so they went off together with only a few navigational hiccups due to there being two Ulm streets in Sydney. Thankfully the other one wasn't too far away and they made it home eventually. I think they were pretty pleased with themselves and their purchases!

Even Tiia's very cool pet lizard Dave seemed pleased with the purchases:

After a snack and a repack, we left for Hardy's Bay and arrived in time for a swim before dinner.  It turned out not to be such a great idea though as the beach and the water was covered in junk from the recent floods.  The water was also pretty rough. Zali advised us against swimming but we did anyway while they watched and contemplated their new lives as orphans..

We survived though!