Bondi, the Grobbelaars and Cronulla.

Bondi Coast on walk with Clayton Frick ('79) to Bronte

Open public seawater pool. One of many such amazing facilities provided by the town and state including gas braais with equipment and also amazing parks for the kids.

Outside the toilets at Bondi. So sad we cannot have this at home.

Bondi Beach in all its glory.

The local swimming club at the public coastal sea water pool.

This is one of the oldest trees in Bondi. It is simly massive. A fig type.

Clayton with one of his little dogs. So like Chuggy of Charles Cannan in Portland, but this one is a few years old.

On the coast near Gosford.

With Ian Grbs. So good to be able to spend time with him and Bev.

At the Yacht Club for beers.

The semi-circular corridor at the Central Coast Grammar School Music facility which is just amazing.

Painting of the local coastline in the foyer of the school music theater.

Inside the theater.

School gym with two indoor basket ball courts.

Ist XV Rugby ball with the Central Coast Grammar School badge.

1st XV Rugby field.

With some of Ian's Year 10 Maths students. 2nd left was the rugby centre who showed me the sports facilities. 2nd right the guy who showed me the Music Centre. On my right a really wonderful young man who would love to go to SACS on an exchange. He was overwhelmed by all the photo's of SACS that Ian showed the class.

One of the magnificent Yaer 12 Tech projects made from an impressively grained wood.

Inside their superb library and study area.

Study area in the library and a magnificent view of the campus through the picture windows.

This for Marcus. Debating room for training. One of 4!

For Hugo de Villiers. Year 9 joint project.

View down the campus.

From Ian's classroom accross the valley to the forest reserve. Beautiful and so many birds.

Into the forest canopy at Ian and Bev's home right on the forest reserve. Amazing to be so close to so many birds; Kookaburra's, Sulpher Crests, Painted Lorikeets, King Parrots. Rosella's, Bell birds, Wattle Birds, Brush Turkeys and even Wallabies down below on the forest floor and in Ian's garden

Overlooking the forest on the deck that Ian built.

My great friend Ian and I on his own built deck. So very good to be given the opportunity to be with him and Bev.

Interesting rock shelf. There are many along the coast, but deadly to fisherman. many have drowned off these shelves.

Ian and Bev's neighbour is a Mustang fanatic. I sneaked a shot of this one of his many. Love it.

Last look at the forest as Bev and I took a hike early morning.
 before I left.

6-seater outrigger canoe. School crew about to do a training run at Cronulla South of Sydney.

Out in the estuary with the coach in a single.

The Hull family negociating the bush on the coastal walk.

Negotiating the use of flip flops to walk accross the 'duwweltjies'!

Not inexpensive homes on the coastal walk. Little like Hermanus.

Another very nice home.

Kookaburra.

And another.

Little miss Hull up a tree!

The site of a Rainbow Lorikeet nest with two young inside who were being fed by the parents when I took this shot. Only about 3m above the path.

Totally unique Hull abode underneath the Parent's-in-lwa's tennis court.

View from the living room deck.

Cronulla from my coastal walk on my last morning before Brisbane. Getting so tired now of constantly moving from one place to the next. I am counting the days to 12 December. This on 19 November. Loving the journey as it continues to its end.

Sydney Part One

From Sydney airport to Kaima with Woolongong in the distance.

Tailwind products. a drink for athletes that has no unnatural additives. It is for sipping continually on your run and the body is abl to absorb it almost immediately unlike gels which stick around in your stomach for hours. Gavin Markey is the Australian distributer of this great product.

A new client, James Smith, 21, an excellent Triathlon athlete.

One of the many inlets around Sydney. It is an excellent boating city with so many waterways.

Gavin, myself and Craig Isaacson. I had not seen Criag since 1890. So good to se him again.

Craigs wife and little boy, totally exhausted and so fast asleep.

The ferry accross the waterway below Gavin's at Berowra North of Sydney.

Gavin and his three children on the ferry.

Olympic Stadium for the second 20/20. Thanks to Parnell (15 per over) we lost on the 2nd last ball.

The four of us at the 20/20.

Looking accross to the scoreboard.

11/11/11.

One of the many banners of remembrance in Sydney on 11 November.

At the memorial site.

Chandelier in the Model Soldier Shop of Rebekka Markey's dad's shop.

WW1 soldiers and a tank. These models go from $39AUD to $2400AUD. For collectors only.

Another Battle scene with Aussies vs Turks.

One of the magnificent Christmas trees in the Queen Victoria Building on George Street

Part of the magnificent tiling in the Queen Victoria Building.

Aborigine painting. Magnificent.

Reminds me a little of Hugo's paintings of a wet and dark Cape Town. This is dry and country.

Some magnificent pieces there,

Selfie showing the strain!

Andrew Castleton, Rob Flude. Ian Grobbelaar and Sean Grobbelaar.

Ian Fullerton who lead a great war cry, one of the bestat an Old Boys function, and Gareth Barrett who did the filming.

More Old Boys.

And more Old Boys

Another view of Ian Grobbelaars table.

Inside the crypt of the ANZAC Memorial.

Eternal flame in the Anzac Memorial.

ANZAC Memorial in Hyde Park, Sydney.

This Jacaranda and Bougainvillia where full of Rainbow Lorikeets and they were so well camoflaged that you could not see one, just hear their cacophony.

And how right he was!

Both of these in the Holocaust section of the Jewsish Museum. I had a really long and both interesting and very moving conversation with a survivor. So sad, so horrific, so brutal.

So true then, so true now.

Ceramic inlay at the Museum.

Stained glass window in the Museum.

The Opera House from the ferry on the way to Taronga.

Bridge from the ferry.

Rear view of the Opera House.

Just magnificent.

The view not often seen.

Entrance to Tronga Zoo. I went in with trepidation and was happily surprised even though it has not convinced me of the necessity for zoo's from the animals point of view. They do, however. have a magnificent educational programme and also an incredible breeding programme for seriously endangered species.

Scrub Turkey which make a huge mess when scratching and a massive nest made from leaves.

Skyline from the Cable Car.

Prehistoric screechong and cawing giant ground bird

Rainbow Lorikeet. There are hundreds in Austrlia. Beauitufl colouring and dreadful squakes.

A fairly plump fruit eating Pigeon.

Not a happy Pelican.

Iguana and turtles.

Skyline, Opera House and the Harbour Bridge.

Another Scrub Turkey.

Two inquisitive wild King Parrots.

Indian Jungle Fowl from whence come all the chickens in the world.

Lazy after a hectice swimming session. Californian seal.

Hop-on, Hop-off ferry. Great idea like the buses.

Another magic skyline view. Sydney has a certain charm about it and it does resemble parts of Pretoria, Johannesburg and Cape Town in feeling more than looks although there are many similarities. By this time I was with Craig Badings and Magda and their two wonderful children, Nick and Taylah. The journey continues in Sydney.