The threat of impending
scurvy has forced us back to civilisation to restock with fresh green
stuff and fruit. We headed down river, back towards the ocean and
turned right in the just inside the entrance into Pittwater. This is
where the TV show Home & Away is filmed near Palm Beach and where
the shores are crammed with luxury homes and apartments. Some parts
are v chi chi.
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| David, Franny, Mary, Peter |
As we cruised down the
channel we spotted a boat in a marina which we thought we knew. It's
wasn't Aurora B we were looking for but another friend, Tenaya, who
we last saw in South Island, NZ. No-one was home so we carried on
for another mile to the absolute limit of Pittwater. With all these
houses, hundreds of boats and lots of marinas there must be a small
supermarket or grocery store. We picked up a vacant mooring buoy
(apparently to pick up a private mooring, as long as it is a short
stop and you leave if owners return is absolutely acceptable here)
and had lunch.
After we had searched
the shore line with binoculars looking for likely shops and found
nothing I was idly looking at the boats coming and going and realised
one of the boats coming in was cruising friends we haven't seen for
over a year – Peter and Mary on Asolare. It didn't take us long to
pootle over to say ahoy there! A surprised and smiling Peter and Mary
hulloed us back. They pointed to an elegant shore side villa up the
hill and said come on over so we took the dinghy to their private
dock and joined them. It was Mary's 70th birthday at the
weekend and to celebrate she's rented the house for two weeks as a
base for family and friends to visit. We must have behaved ourselves
because we're invited back tomorrow for a beach visit and dinner in
the evening.
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| Scantily clad surf life rescue |
It was a beautiful
evening to have a barbecue in the cockpit and watch the toned surf
life rescue hunks skull past wearing nothing more than a smile and
teeny weeny swim thongs.
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