Our friend, Russ, and his son, David, took us on the most awesome Sunday drive EVER! We started the day off with a game of 10 pin. Then Kevin and his buddy, Mitch, decided they would rather play video games than go for a drive. And boy did Kevin miss out! He's learned his lesson after seeing the pictures and videos.
We started in Ingleburn and stopped at the Sublime Outlook, before driving down the Illawarra Escarpment to Austinmer where we had lunch. We ate at a place called the Headlands Hotel. Lot's of bikers and people out for a lovely Sunday afternoon. We ate lunch on the grass, overlooking the beach.
Austinmer Beach is the coolest beach Jay and I have ever seen, and we have barely ventured an hour from our house in Inglenurn! The rock escarpments reaching out to the sea were amazing. Oh, and there was a topless chick on the beach which the guys really liked.
We continued north, crossing the Sea Cliff Bridge (http://seacliffbridge.com/), which the Aussies are quite proud of, to Coalcliff, where there is a beach pool, literally carved into the rock formation on the beach. It is a salt water pool, obviously.
We drove back up the Illawrra Escarpment to Bald Hill Lookout near Otford, NSW. There were three monks sitting in the grass and we all joined them, while eating an ice cream. The view was spectacular. You could sea really far south to the Sea Cliff Bridge, and a long way off to the north along the coast.
We drove through the Royal National Park (http://www.walkabout.com.au/locations/NSWRoyalNationalPark.shtml) to our last stop, Wattamolla Beach, where there was a really big waterfall cascading into the eastuary below, heading out to sea. Again, very cool beach to take kids and to camp. On our way back to Ingleburn, we drove over the Audley Weir, which is along the Hacking River. It's the furthest that boats can travel upriver from the ocean.
The whole trip took about 3 hours drive time, but we were gone for about 4 hours. Round trip was 148 km (or 92 miles). Very close to home, and awesome day out anytime. See more pics below.
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You should have someone check on your house in Denton. North and northeast Denton got it the worst from a severe storm last night with 70 mph winds and 4.25-inch hail. The largest hail was along Loop 288 around Kings Road and Old North Road (your old neighborhood, I think?). There was other damage such as roofs blown off, windows broken out by hail, power lines blown down, giant trees broken off and smashed in houses and cars, etc. The one on the news had a trunk five feet in diameter! Here in south Denton we just got rain, but at 4:30 AM it was raining so hard there was a roar that filled the house!
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