Before we came out numerous people warned us about deadly snakes, deadly sharks, deadly crocodiles, deadly jellyfish and deadly spiders in out here. And yes all these things do exist, and I might be tempting fate here, but we haven't seen a single one of them in the wild - never mind been threatened by one! The fact is that we're spending the vast majority of our time in a major city and creepy crawlies don't like cities. Of course everyone likes to talk about their close encounters or about a friend of a friend who rescued his son from the grips of a python .... or whatever. And we did have a large (harmless) Huntsman spider in the house a couple of months ago. But I'm beginning to wonder if it's all a fuss about nothing. That said, it strikes me that these posts can't be deleted once they've been published ........ so I could be setting myself up for an embarrassing backtrack if we're attacked next week.
We were away on a camping trip in Jarvis Bay last weekend. It's a popular destination about 3 hours south of Sydney. The beaches have the whitest sand in Australia (it's in the Guinness Book of Records apparently) and go on for miles, so it's obvious why it's so popular. Part of the reason for the trip was to try out snorkeling - we bought all the kit while we were down there but things didn't quite go to plan. Turns out that facial hair doesn't help in forming a seal between skin and mask. Drastic measures may need to be taken! Here's a short set of photos from the trip.
The snorkeling is a prelude to scuba diving as we've been bought gift tokens for a local dive school (birthday presents from the Smith family back home - thanks folks!). If the snorkeling goes well the plan is to upgrade to the full scuba course and give that a serious try. It could prove to be just one of many new experiences we're picking up here.
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