An exciting weekend!

What a weekend! I'm writing this blog entry on Sha's computer and the font is huge. Everything is also in Chinese so I'm not sure that this is going to work! Oh dear, a warning message has come up - I have no idea what it means.

Anyway, last Friday I rented a car. It was very small. Actually, I took the entire day off, picked up Sha's Spanish visa, went to see a huge crocodile in Darling Harbour, met a large dai shu and then I picked up the car. Vikram was staying at home and so we all randomly decided to drive to Dee Why beach. Why not? Sha ate fish-and-chips. Vikram and I were healthy. Then we drove home again.
On Saturday, we met Ding and Yu Meng for a drive to the Royal National Park. Apart from getting a bit lost the drive was fun. We headed off down little, windy roads in the national park until we found the Otford Lookout. On the way to the start of the proper walk, Sha found a little path leading down the cliff edge and, to Yu Meng's dismay, insisted that we took that path instead. It was fun! We saw lots of butterflies, lizards and birds. At the bottom of the cliff we ended up at a beautiful beach where I paddled in the water and picked up sea-urchins whilst Sha tried to teach a young boy how to surf in a rock pool (Sha can't swim at all). Ding took about 1000 photographs.

We then walked all the way back up again in the heat. At the top we collapsed in the cafe for a well deserved break, but Yu Meng amazingly disappeared through the cafe wall when a huge blue tongue lizard came to join us. Sha loved the lizard. Apparently it was 23 years old.




We decided it was too hot to stay out of the shade and so drove inland into the forest. We stopped to do a 2-hour walk through the rainforest. It was beautiful. .... oh ... the warning message that I got earlier apparently was telling me that the battery was about to run out ... Anyway, Yu Meng's trip didn't end so well as Sha tripped over an enormous Goanna(nearly stepped on it before finding - Sha). It must have been about 2 metres long. It rushed past Yu Meng and shot up a branch of a tree. Ding took another few hundred photos! Sha wants one as a pet (then can beat up all the dogs in our neighbourhood - Sha). Yu Meng doesn't want to go into the forest any more! We walked back to the car park to discover an echidna trying to hide from us in the bushes - Sha wants one as a pet( it looks like a durian - Sha)!


Finally, we started to drive back. After turning a sharp corner I had to stop quickly to let Sha jump out, run into the middle of the road, try (and fail) to pick up the huge echidna that was sitting there and then chase it off the road (chased it to back to the point which was opposite way where it wanna go. Apparelly, this thing used half day to reach the middle of the road~lol -- Sha)


What a trip!


Sunday was more relaxed. Sha and I simply drove to the Cumberland State Forest and spent hours walking around the small tracks. Unfortunately, one was closed because of the danger of falling bunya pine cones. Sha ate a lot.