Boxing Day

We left Bateman’s bay at around 10am to head back up the New South Wales Coastline towards Kiama. Part of our journey today would be along the newly setup tourist drive - the Grand Pacific Drive (GPD). Sounds impressive don’t you think?? The GPD started around 50km before we reached Kiama. I don’t think the stretch that we did was particularly impressive, mainly because we could hardly see the sea - and certainly didn’t live up to the ‘grand’ title anyway. Perhaps things will improve as we head up towards Sydney as that is where the majority of the route is - plenty of time to redeem things.

The weather had restarted where it had left off yesterday - pretty miserable. We are enjoying the slight break from the intense heat - although it would be better without the rain. On arriving in Kiama at our cheapest accommodation so far (dearest to cheapest in one day), we headed out for a short walk around town. Just across the road from us is a blowhole, where the sea spurts water 30m into the air as the waves crash into the coast. It is surprisingly popular with the tourists considering it is just a water being squirted into the air. Cheers and clapping at each successive spurt was fairly amusing.

Otherwise we kept the activity to a minimum today as Saturdays are Andrea’s double session day. It started with a 12mile tempo run along the Bateman’s Bay coastal path and then a very short speed session on the grass in the afternoon. Both went well and it is now less than a week until Andrea’s first race since leaving the UK. Exciting stuff.


Andrea cruising on her tempo


Blow-hole

Tomorrow we are heading inland to walk a bit around a rainforest. We will also investigate a bit more of the coastline around here as there appear to be quite a few nice walks.