Visit to Sydney

During the school holidays, we had a wonderful time in Sydney, due mostly to the efforts of Chelsea, Daniel and Leanne. Thanks guys, we had a great time.

Somewhere here there is photo of Laurence and I, taken by Chelsea, whilst enjoying an afternoon in her company at beautiful Manly. (Gotta love it!) We had a great time walking, eating and drinking and taking in the beauty that is the wharf side of Manly. The weather was amazingly generous, considering it was the school holidays.

Also included are photos of Daniel and Leanne taken from “THE BOAT’ which now abides in his newly cleared out garage and enabled us to have a great day on the Hawkesbury.

There is an excellent photo of Laurence doing what he likes to do. I was going to say, ‘what he likes to do best’ - but that’s not it!!!

The weather was great, company excellent, food and wine superb, and apart from the nervousness because neither alpha males had their boat licenses, we had a great day. The Maritime Services Board chose that particular day to have a marketing campaign and had a fully-outfitted tent at Apple Tree Bay complete with uniformed officers with clipboards in hand, walking around interviewing all boaters and because of the amount of traffic (due to an abnormally lengthy period of really bad boating weather, which meant every Tom, Dick and Harry was out for the day) they saw everybody.

Everything turned out alright as our guys answered all the questions with great alacrity and composure, not rousing any suspicion in the enthusiastic officers. Get your licenses please!!!

And our guys did us proud, first of all Laurence’s truly masterful reversing of the trailer down the ramp and Daniel’s rather cool driving the boat perfectly onto the waiting trailer. Leanne and I did a special cheerleader-type victory dance on shore. We couldn’t help ourselves. Lots of the other guys were pathetic at reversing and maneuvering trailers and boats. One such, Mercedes driving, male took at least 13 goes at reversing his trailer down the ramp and he had help. Very unsexy! Our guys shone out in comparison. I know Brenton is also an expert at this. Go team!