Slept relatively well (awake for bits and pieces but not too bad).
Had a relatively slow start, out the door a bit after 10.
Skipped Prospect Hill as it was raining (while BOM said "No rain").
Instead stopped at Muston Lookout which is mostly a view of trees.
Then down into American River.
Had a look at the replica of the Independence they're building.
Then down to get coffee from the coffee truck (Pam and I had hot chocolate).
Next we headed up to Red Banks. Graham and Pam had never been up there. There's no info boards and the path down to the beach is a tiny little (but relatively well worn) track. Was able to find some of the photo spots from last time.
Then out to the eucalyptus distillery. The business has expanded somewhat since we were there last. I showed them the photos from last time and they told me the dude we have in the photos is Rod Jenkins, their neighbour who used to run tours. Funny stuff.
Had some quite nice lunch there and I snapped a few photos of the old post office and old boiler.
Then a bit further down the road for honey ice creams at Cliffords.
On the way back we stopped at Prospect Hill and went up it. Even the sweetie came with me :) The view is still a bit meh, but we did see a tiger snake which was pretty cool.
And then out to Pennington Bay which would have been nicer in the sun and couldn't exactly find the shots from 1994.
Dropped back in at the house for like an hour and I brought in my washing (that'd I'd hung out this morning) and Stu put some washing on.
Then out to meet up with Robyn at KI Tru Thai which was an experience. The dude has a big shed that he's setup as a restaurant with a food truck serving Thai food. We got the "tapas" which is their banquet equivalent with dumplings, curry puffs and spring rolls, a couple of different rices, then five dishes - I think there was pad thai, lamb and potato curry, chicken green curry, fish curry and some other meat dish I'm not sure which one. Stu geeked out with the dude, who is Tony Blight who "owns" the KI call sign VK5KI.
Back to the house to do gps/photos/blogging.
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