Am sitting in the departure lounge at Sydney Airport waiting to head back to Perth for a couple of days before heading to Denmark ( Denmark in the South West of Western Australia that is).
Have spent 4 great days on the Hawkesbury River, in particular Dangar Island just off Brooklyn.
On Wednesday caught up with some friends we met while they were "in residence" at the Katherine Sussanah Pritchard writers centre in Perth. They came down from Lake Maquarie and we spent the day with them, there is a great little fish & chips shop in Brooklyn, so with a bottle of wine and some salad we had lunch in the park, accompanied by the bush turkey, carrawongs and noisy miners (oh, and a couple of small humans also).
Yesterday got up early and again took the ferry (The Sun) to Brooklyn and boarded the Hawkesbury River Explorer, which is the last remaining River Postman in Australia, for a 31/2 hr trip up the river dropping off mail and goods to the various communities along the river.
But am afraid that is all over now and this morning Rose and I had to pack up, leave our cosy little cottage and verandah overlooking the river and head off to the airport. Caught the train out of Hawkesbury but stopped off in Sydney, but would you know it, ther are no luggage lockers at the Rail Station! so we were stuck with our lugagge, however found a nice little cafe close by (at the Youth Hostel actually!) and had a lunch of Teryaki Chicken with drink for $9.98!.
So here we now are at the airport waiting for our flight. Next week we head off to Denmark, so will write again then.
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