Fun Sunday out

Well the Sydney "winter" just doesn't seem to exist this year.




Juice, Leigh and Shaun standing at Palm beach.


kookaburras


Went to Palm Beach jetty for lunch.


The tough life at Palm Beach.


Collaroy Beach


While Kimble did his race Juice,Leigh and Shaun enjoyed a coffee at Collaroy.


Today I did the Pub2Pub 13km run.


Had a really fun run with a few tough hills and a beach run for the start.


Happy to be at the finish line in 1h11.

City 2 Surf 2009

Once again it was City 2 Surf time.

When 75000 Sydneysiders come out to run / walk the 14km from Sydney CBD to Bondi Beach.

As you can see it gets somewhat crowded at the start.

This year Martin and Janice also took part.

Juice walked with Martin and Janice seen as Kimble had decided to use it as a training run. Although there's a lot of work before IM, I was very happy with my time of 1h11

Ironman WA - Entered.

It's done! I have entered Ironman WA (Western Australia) no turning back now.

The Ironman is the longest form of triathlon.

Swim: 3.8 km

Cycle: 180 km

Run: 42.2 km

What would life be without a few challenges?

Yes, this is going to be a long day out to say the least.

Busselton in about 3 hours drive south of Perth.

General Out and About

The weather has been great in Sydney over the past few weeks. So we've made the most of it.

Down at Cremorne Point for Lynda's B-Day

This was the most unbelievable chocolate thing ever!

Darling Harbour off to the maritime museum to an exhibition about Charles Darwin.

Yes, it's true! Juice has bought herself a ticket to see BRITNEY SPEARS.

The little possum we rescued after it was attacked by a cat.

Another footy game. Sydney Swans v St kilda.

Yet another great Sunday out at Coogee Beach.

AFL - Swans vs The Bombers

On Sat Kimble and a few mates went down to the SCG

to watch The Swans (Syd) vs The Bombers (Melb)

This was Shaun and Gerrie's 1st AFL Game.

Kimble wearing his Bombers jumper.

There was almost a full house at the SCG for the game.

The Bomebers - the team Kimble supports won

Score:

Swans 10.12 - 72

Bombers 15.17 - 107

Whale watching

Fortunately the weather has been great in Sydney...ie: No rain!

So Juice and I thought we'd go whale watching.

We joined Dave and Lynda

Awwww our first whale sighting about 2km off Sydney mainland.

We were informed that this was a large whale pod of around 9 whales.

The whales are heading up north to the warmer waters off Queensland.

After 1,5 hrs of bobbing around like a cork it was time to head on back. The poor lady next to Juice could hardly wait as she was sooooo sea sick!

Sydney in the distance.

Blackheath - Blue Mountains

We went up to the Blue Mountains with a few friends for the long weekend. X-mas in June seeing as it's been icy in Sydney over the last week or so.

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Although it was chilly we all went for a walk in the mountains.

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We stayed in Blackheath about 1.5 hrs from Sydney.

In the nearby town of Clarence you can take the old Zig Zag Railway

On some days they turn train into the 'Wizards Express' from the Harry Potter Books.

Being X-mas in June we all had to buy a $10 pressie for someone from Vinnies (Charity store). Leigh got a tea set from Kimble.

Most evenings were spent around the fire place playing a game.