2018

Hello everybody, I told you I'll be back in 2018 and it is already three days into it.

We saw some fireworks on New Year's Eve from our front balcony but the most impressive ones we saw were on TV from Sydney harbour.  They always put on a good show.

Not my photo

We had a lovely time over Christmas down in a place called Dalmeny on the South coast five hours from Sydney. Hubby's sister and her husband and their two adult sons came up from Melbourne and our two Sydney-based children with three friends came too.

Glasshouse rocks in Narooma

The first day when the "kids" went down to have a swim they didn't dare to go in because of all the sting-rays swimming around. After that they found some other beaches that were more accessible for "humans".

Growing up on the west coast of Sweden we didn't have any problems with stingrays but certain summers we had great problems with orange jelly fish. I mean, sometimes it was to the point that you just couldn't get in. This didn't stop our swimmings instructors from persevering with the swimming lessons though. So the bigger kids had to stay in the water and try to sweep away the jellyfish and make a 'free zone" for the younger kids. Unfortunately jelly fish leave burning strings in the water so we had to rush up after our lesson and have cold showers.

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Actually when I go swimming here in Australia I prefer to go to beaches that have rock pools i.e. saltwater pools on the beach where water flows in from the ocean constantly but there is no surf or rip tide or sharks or box jelly fish. I guess I am not a very adventurous swimmer even though I love being in water as you can see by the photo below.

This was taken in NZ a few years ago.

Next week-end will be taken up with house hunting. In fact every week-end will be until we find something suitable. Spacious, but not too big, with a small garden with a pool. Nice big garage with a workshop, two bathrooms, three bedrooms and also preferably a nice view over the ocean, near a train station. Oh, and not too expensive. Do you think we will find something like that? Well, wish us luck. I will keep you posted.

Have a nice week!