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Garigal National Park and northern beaches.


Hi lovelies,
We arrived in Sydney yesterday and are staying at a lovely caravan park in Vineyard.  It is the same park we stayed at when we were here in April.


It was still some smoke around as we left this morning, but turned out to be a beautiful day.

“Let’s go for a walk” I said.  😊.

We took a drive into the Garigal National Park were we were going to have a spot of lunch and then do part of the Cascades Trail. 



 This time I found the right car park,


 I knew it was a 2 ½ km trip each way, and that there would be some “gentle slopes”.

What they forgot to say was the entire trip to the stepping stones crossing was downhill, which meant the 2 1/2km back was uphill.

It was a lovely walk and the stepping stones were quite pretty.  


We then decided that we would go for a drive to see some of the beaches north or the city. Please note I take no responsibility if I have the wrong beach under the wrong title.  It got a little hard to work out what was what 😏

Our first stop was Bongin Bongin Bay.

The sand was quite interesting in that it had a brownish/orange tint to it.
 

From there is was off to Narrabeen Beach.


I want this man’s job.  Well actually I don’t want any job, but if I had to have one, sitting on the beach to watch a truck go back and forwards would be it.



Next stop Dee Why.  Why?, because we could 😊.


Then to South Curl Curl.

Then to Manly where we went for a drive to the North Head Sanctuary. 


 This area was really amazing, and we were a bit sad that we did not leave enough time to have a really good look at it.
The Barracks Precinct was really cool

We then took a trip to the Fairfax Lookouts area.

What a wonderful sight from the heads.  Even the lingering smoke in the sky did not take away from the amazing views.
This little bird spent some time showing off for us.  

It was then time to head back to the van.  Robbie was a marvel manoeuvring around the evening traffic.
Another amazing day with seeing more of this wonderful country.
All for tonight lovelies.
Stay safe and keep enjoying life.
Love us.
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