Monday, May 30, 2011

 

A Cabin at Kiama

Last week we went down to Kiama on the New South Wales south coast; the Oldies, Scruffy, Milkshake, Blu (a new member of the crew), and I. It is only a 3 hour drive from Canberra and there are only a few kilometres of the drive that are a bit scary for small critters. That is the drive down Macquarie Pass. The road there is very bendy and narrow and huge trucks use it; we met one of them on a hairpin bend and just managed to squeeze past between the truck and the drop over the cliff edge. Scruff had his eyes closed during the dangerous bit. Anyhow, Kiama is a beautiful place. We stayed in a cottage with a view out the front across the small harbour and the ocean. Guess what was only a few hundred metres behind the cottage? A lighthouse! We could watch the light come on and start flashing just after sunset. Mum, as usual, took dozens of photos of the lighthouse in all sorts of weather; we had a couple of days that were cloudy and windy and a couple of calm clear ones. That makes 76 Australian lighthouses that Mum has taken us to visit, and leaves only 3 more before her NSW collection is complete. It was Blu's first trip and he didn't get car-sick at all so we will take him with us again.

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