Thursday 3 January 2013

23 December 2012 – Still in Sydney (Sydney Harbour)

We had a special invite for today, a maiden voyage on Rod and Edwina’s boat out in Sydney Harbour.  We met them at The Spit just in time to climb on board and take off.  Zoe and Samantha were actually very excited to get back out on the water (thankfully) and the weather was perfect for the day ahead.  After throwing anchor not far from Taronga Zoo we had a bit of relaxing to do before jetting off again, to meet up with other friends of Rod & Eddie’s out too on their boat.  It was a lovely day with a fantastic bunch of people!  Towards the end of our afternoon, the ladies in the group had decided to swim over to a rockface to jump off the ledge… not much dutch courage required when you’ve been drinking all afternoon.  However, when push came to shove standing on that ledge, it was much harder than originally thought.  If it wasn’t for the difficult climb to get to the ledge, I think I would have tried to climb back down instead of stepping off the edge.  Fortunately I made it to the surface after taking my leap of faith and swam safely back to board the boat.  It was quite late when we said our farewells back at the mooring so we fed the kids something quick for dinner and then headed for North Sydney to check out the city lights one more time before our big adventure.  We live in such a beautiful city but I’m sure we will discover many more places to match those currently surrounding us.


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