Boxing Day in Sydney - We watched the start of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht race yesterday, caught a special ferry from Manly. It was pandemonium on the water, boats of all sizes jockeying for position, quite a spectacle, MDR was in his element of course. Our ferry stoppped just short of the heads so we got an excellent view of the yachts coming up the harbour and turning to go through the heads and south to Hobart.
Today it was time for a hike to burn up some of that excess festive food. MB dusted off her Leki and MDR & MB drove down to Forestville (less than 10 mins from Frenchs Forest) for a bit of walk in the Garigal National Park. After a gruelling 3.5hours in the 30c heat we made it back to the car. We ended up doing a circuit via a very nice park under the bridge at Middle Harbour. Luckily there was running water in the park as we only took one water bottle, we were pretty unprepared!
Apart from the heat the walk was very scenic, the park surrounds Middle Harbour, and our walk started at Carroll Creek which runs into Middle Harbour. The first leg to the hike was very easy, mostly along the edge of the creek and then Middle Harbour to the park. Marc was very interested in the free oysters on the harbour bank (pictured above) Returning back, we took a higher trail to complete the circuit, it was the hottest time of the day and most of the trail was in full sun. Eventually we reached a grotto which had water dripping down from what was perhaps a spring. This was a life saver, we were both so hot and bothered and down to our last few sips of water in the communal water bottle. We refilled the bottle a couple of times and cooled off under the water, after that we only had about 20 minutes of walking to get back to the car.
The dip in the pool at our house sit in Frenchs Forest never felt so good!
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