Berowra Waters
My vacation week got off to a great start yesterday. Bex had invited the Snook and me to help celebrate Fin’s birthday. Eleven of us headed up to Berowra Waters (about 50km north of us) for a picnic on the BBQ Boat! This was basically a pontoon with a built-in gas grill. We puttered up and down Berowra Creek (which joins up to the Hawkesbury River), stopping occasionally to eat, swim, and even fish.

I remembered to get batteries for my camera, but I somehow forgot the memory card. D’OH! So all the pictures are from my spectacularly crappy mobile phone. The first is me driving our little GoGet car. We actually had to take a ferry (a drive-on ferry!) across the creek to the marina. Next is me and the Snook on the BBQ Boat. You guys, we had SO MUCH FOOD. The third picture is me and Fin swimming alongside the boat. Since the Creek is tidal, the water was saltier than I expected. The current was pretty strong too, so I didn’t stay out there for very long. The last picture is Snookums working his hand fishing-line off the side of the boat. He didn’t catch anything, but he did get a few nibbles.

At one of our last stops, I noticed something orangish floating in the water near the boat, like a discarded shopping bag. “What’s that?” I asked to the Snook as I pointed it out. “Jellyfish.” Suddenly we noticed there were loads of them. They’d all drifted into one cove, and we were right in the middle. They weren’t the stingy-death kind, thank goodness, or I’d still be freaking out about having swam in the same body of water. They were very pretty though, and I was amazed to see something like that out in the wild and not at an aquarium. It was very cool.

Thanks again to Bex and Fin for inviting us!