Birthday, boats and beaches with the boys.

Home.

We are back at Frogknot tonight. I will post pictures of our last two days tomorrow.

Trial Bay Gaol.

After another walk this morning on the beach at Smoky Cape we headed to Trial Bay Gaol near South West Rocks.I thought it have been for the early convicts sent to Australia but it was more recent than that...well, early 1900's. It was built to house prisoners brought to the area to build a breakwater but the sea proved too powerful and the job was eventually abandoned. Between 1915 and 1918 it was used to house German detainees during the war and later still was stripped of most of it's metal work and abandoned. Local Aboriginal people moved into the ruins for some time after that.

We have now driven north to Ashby and are having a couple of nights by the River Clarence.

Smoky Cape.

So...we have travelled up the East Coast on the Pacific Highway and are now camped at Smoky Cape, near South West Rocks. I have camped here twice before with Will and it is one of my favourite places.We went into South West Rocks ( the town) for an evening stroll and fish and chip supper before returning to our tent at Smoky Cape Campground.We have just been out for a night wander on the beach to see the light from the lighthouse on the headland. It is quite magical but sadly it's magic cannot be conveyed in photographs.

A Bondi Birthday!

So... today Lewis was 26.It was also Anzac Day.We went to Bondi for a dip and then back to the city for harbour walks. This evening we walked over the harbour bridge and went for a fabulous Japanese birthday meal. I hope it was a birthday to remember.