Tress, Kiddo and I left home just after 9am on Sat and made our way to Merrimbulla on the NSW south coast.  We had a hearty brekky at H Jacks) before starting the journey just after 10am. We got to Merimbulla just after 4pm.

After a fish and chips dinner and walking around the town and some ice cream, we went back to the hotel and slept early. We pushed off about 9am the next morning, headed towards Bega. At Bega, we stopped for brekky and looked around the well known cheese factory. We then pushed off from there and stopped at Quoama. We picked up a couple of bottles of fruit wine before heading up north again.

We passed numerous beautiful coastal resort towns. The water was clear, brilliant turquoise or blue. The last stops were Kiama and Wollongong before we reached my uncle Stephen’s home just after 6pm.

We spent the first new day taking the Rivercat along the Parramatta river to Circular Quay. Kiddo saw the Harbour Bridge and Opera House for the first time. We criscrossed the city, Darling Harbour and Eastern Suburb all day, including revisiting our old homes in Kingsfors, Kensington and Randwick as well as UNSW.

We went to the Pyrmont Fish Markets yesterday, and brought back some fish to cook for dinner.

Today we will head off to the Blue Mountains.

It will be a very hot day.