An interlude: to the Jenolan Caves

 

Christmas Day kite flying!

Ready for lunch?

Getting ready to make the pavlova

It's ready!

Eel in the botanical gardens

It's hard to keep up with this blog.  On Christmas Day we had a massive, traditional Christmas lunch.  This included turkey and even brussel spouts (but Sha's dad only let me boil them for about 20 minutes).  Sha also made lots of cupcakes, a pavlova and we had a Christmas pudding.  It was a massive feast.   I spent a lot of the day trying to get X-Plane10 installed, but then was disappointed to find that Sydney airport is in the wrong place :(  Sha's dad had also found me a bonsai tree.   My New Year resolution will have to be that I don't kill the tree!

The waves were a little big for swimming

My Chinese is getting worse.  On Boxing Day, I kept asking Sha's dad whether he wanted to go back home on a "princess" (instead of a "bus").  That led to some confusion.  And, I've just told him that I don't want any more breakfast because I'm drunk (I meant to say "enough"). 

Arrival at the Jenolan Caves

Look at the colour of the water

On Boxing Day we tried to see the start of the Sydney-Hobart boat race, but we didn't go far enough around the harbour to see the start.  Instead we watched the eels in the botanic gardens and then Sha''s dad and I went on the ferry to Manly.  We walked around for half-an-hour and then took the boat back again.  There were some large waves!!

Yesterday we went to the Jenolan Caves.  It's a long way.  It took about 3 hours each way and the last 20km or so is on a rather dramatic, windy road.  Everything is fine until a crazy 4wd comes from the opposite direction.  At the end the carpark was full and we had to drive up another windy, dirt road to find another carpark.  We went on the "diamond" tour that took us through some spectacular caves and then down to an underground river. 

A troll that we found in the caves