Saturday February 18th
Blair Bond – “I” Beach
I arose early at about 7 ish again this morning and stopped
by Starbucks for a morning java blast which has become my daily routine. I have some coffee and read for about an hour
before heading back to the hostel. I’m a
little citied-out and have decided to head out to Bondi Beach for the day. I’m not sure who may join me and I am happy
to hear at the last minute that Annie and Hudson will be tagging along for the
day. We purchase our tickets and head
out. Annie and I grab a chicken caesar
wrap on the way to the bus stop. We miss
the first bus not realizing you have to flag it down to get it to stop. The next bus approaches and I throw Hudson
into the intersection to get the drivers attention…just kidding. We get on the bus and start singing Bondi
Beach..here we come…Bondi Beach…here we come…just kidding again. We get to the beach, scope the situation and
find a spot near the water. This beach
is much different than Manly Beach from the other day. This is more of a family oriented beach in a
semi-circular cove with low rise condos on the terraced hills along the outer
edges. It is low tide with a sandbar
extending a pretty good ways out...similar to Topsail X2. Annie and Hudson go for a dip in the chilli
water while Uncle Blair hangs back.
After a swim, Hudson and I walk the beaches and enjoy a little people
watching. We discover the Chinese
really really like to have their pictures taken at the shore line in long pants
and long shirts and then leave without hanging on the beach, the Indian fellas
don’t own bathing suits and go swimming in their skivvies, young children from anywhere in the world all
behave similarly at the ocean edge. Hudi
and I spot a family nearby that has shown up with ice cream cones. The youngest is approx. 3-4 years old and is
waving his ice cream cone parallel to the ground. I say Hudi…how long you think it is before
that kid drops his cone in the sand. We
have a little laugh and Hudson proceeds to give me a play by play analysis of
the kids every move thereafter.
Eventually the kid is tired of his cone and gives it to the father who
has noticed Hudi’s interest and comes over and offers Hudi the rest of the
cone. He declines. It is getting late in the day, so we pack up
for stroll into town before leaving. I
purchase a t-shirt, we grab a bite to eat and head back to meet up with Sharon,
Paulie and Sam. For dinner we go back to
the Asian food court, that has a little something for everyone, Chinese,
Japanese, Thai, Malaysian, Indian, etc.
After dinner Sharon and I spend quite a bit of time trying to figure out
the best transportation method out of Sydney (van, camper van, train). We agree to meet again early in the morning
and go to bed with some loose ends left open.
Annie Bondi Beach entry
Today
we were going to go to the Sydney zoo, but Blair wanted to go to Bondi beach. Hudson and I thought that sounded a little
better than going to the zoo for the day so we decided to go to the beach with
Blair and mom, dad, and Sam went to the zoo.
We walked up to the bus stop near out house and along the way we stopped
and Blair and I got a chicken Cesar rap because we didn’t know what kind of
food was going to be at the beach. Then
we caught the 333 bus to Bondi, and rode in the bus for about 25 minutes until
we saw sand and then get out. We found a
nice place on the beach near the water and we set up out stuff. Hudson and I went swimming even though it was
very very cold water. When we came out
Blair said he saw something up the beach that looked like a kitty pool and
wanted to walk up there and check it out, so I stayed with our stuff while
Hudson and Blair walked up the beach.
When they got back they said it was but they didn’t really want to go in
it because there was probably a lot of little kids pee in it. They wanted to walk in the other direction to
look at the other side of the beach, so I decided to stay again while they
walked up to the other end. Right when
they were getting back from their walk a huge group decided to plop
themselves down right in front of us.
They were only a few inches maybe a foot or so away from us and all we
could see were their heads and their umbrellas.
Then the men decided to go in their underwear, and that was when we
decided to move away from them to another spot on the beach. There were plenty to choose from right next
to us, so we found a nice spot and got re-setup in our new place for a
while. Once it started to get colder we
walked into town to look around and find Hudson something to eat for
lunch. We found a kebab stand and Blair
and Hudson got a wrap type thing. We
walked around town until they were finished and then caught the 33 train back
to Sydney and waited for the others back in our hostel. When they came back we rested for a while and
then went out for dinner, Hudson didn’t come because he had had a big wrap just
before then. When we came home we
chilled out for a while, while mom and Blair were in the lobby looking for a
camper and then went to sleep.
Hudson:
Today I get up and hear that I have one of two choices, to
go to the beach with blair and annie, or go to the zoo with my parents and sam.
I am so tired of being with my parents I go get my bathing suit, and we head to
the bus stop. We get on and have to wait for at least 10 stops. We get off and
we can already see the beach so we head over to it and pick a spot and settle
in. me and annie go into the water but blair stays behind to look after all our
stuff because we don’t want it to get stolen. Then me and blair go down to the
left side of the beach because we thought we saw a baby pool but when we get
there we realize that its probably full of piss so we go and head up to take a
look at a café an me and blair spot two or three girls that are topless and suddenly
start walking a little slower and we got up and find the café is closed for
mardi gras so we head back and see a sign that reads by 2040 the water level of
the sea will be at least 3 feet higher than it already is. We walk back and
check on Annie who is tanning and the we walk to the other side of the beach to
look at a really nice hotel and go back and notice that some indian migraters
are settling right in front of us, blair gets mad but doesn’t say anything but
when they start undressing into their underwear superman weenie bikini we move
to a perfect location without the horrible smell of whatever they were eating
and them in a whole. We left and got onto the bus and went home
Sam – ZOO DAY
Today we could not decide what we were going to do, so me,
mom and dad went to the zoo. We boarded
the 555 bus that drove us to the harbor where we walked to the “Rocks” and had
something to eat. Then, I went back to the place where we saw the people making
candy and we saw them dumping a bunch of candy out and mixing it up and putting
it into buckets to sell. Then we walked
to the wharf where we bought tickets to board the ferry. When we got on the ferry we got really good
seats because we were one of the first people to get onto the ferry. We watched a bird catch a fish outside of our
window while we were waiting for the rest of the people to get on and then we
started and he flew away. It wasn’t a
very long ride to the zoo. When we got
there we got onto a bus that drove us to the main entrance of the zoo. Then we got a map and we saw that the seal
show was going to be soon, but we had enough time to stop by and quickly see
the Koalas and then we walked by the giraffes that got so close to us. When we finally got to the seal show there
weren’t many seats left, but we got seats anyway. The seal show was amazing and my favorite
part was when the seal did a double back flip and jumped out of the water. Then we went back to see the Koalas again to
see another show, but it was at a different place. So we went and saw the monkeys. The monkeys were disgusting because they were
doing gross things that my mom won’t let me write here. After that we went to go find the gorillas,
but we stopped at a lot of other places first.
There was a peacock walking around and I took a picture. Then we saw a Tasmanian Devil, a Platypus,
several Kangaroos, an Emu, Spider Monkeys, Penguins, Elephants, Birds, Sea
Lions and a wombat. The wombat was
awesome, even though it was sleeping the whole time. We were really tired at that point and the
zoo was closing, so we decided to do one last thing which was the sky
safari. We didn’t see much on the sky
safari except elephants and “black weasels” as my dad called the weird black
birds. Then we rode back on the sky
safari and caught the ferry back and got a bus to our hostel. Dee End
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