Over the long weekend for the Queen's Birthday (have to love that we get a long weeked to celebrate the Queen's birthday that isn't even on the Queen's actual birthday - long live the Queen!) we took advantage of the extra day off to get out of town. After hearing from a lot of people that Pebbly Beach was amazing, we thought this was a good opportunity to check it out.
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| View from Sublime point over Wollongong |
Pebbly Beach is about four hours south of Sydney and is a pretty beautiful drive down the coast.
A few of us drove down on Friday to start the weekend early and were treated to a cabin up on a small cliff right above the ocean. There's no better way to sleep than to the sounds of the waves crashing right outside.
Saturday morning dawned bright and sunny with a high around 18C (mid-60's F), not too bad for the first weekend in winter, and Chris and Gerrie went down to the beach to get started on their weekend- long assualt on the local fish.
Lesley and I wandered down an hour or so later with breakfast to keep them going and were treated to an empty beach with only Chris and Gerrie down there.
After a few hours of regular fishing, with at least one flathead in the bag for dinner the boys decided that they weren't getting up close and personal enough with the fish and decided to trade the fishing rods for spear guns.
This happened to be Gerrie's first spearfishing attempt, and if you can't tell from the picture above, he was quite pleased to be wielding a spear gun.
I'm happy to report that after over 3 years of attempts, a new spear gun and specialist wetsuit purchase, and lots of hard work, there was success!
While they were out spearing the rest of the group arrived to join us relaxing on the beach and we were treated to an amazing show - two dolphins were actually surfing the waves! I only got them on camera from far away, but they are towards the left edge of that back wave. This was something that I'd only seen on TV prior to this and I was very excited to see them.
You might think that after spending almost all of the daylight hours fishing, and with a fishing charter on the books for Sunday morning they might be tired of fishing, but the adventure continued as the sun went down.
The streak of sucess continued with additional fish being pulled in and we all started looking forward to a dinner of fresh caught fish.
We were treated to a great sunset on the beach and then packed up to spend some time around the campfire.
Sunday morning the boys dragged themselves out of bed waaaay before daylight to jump on a fishing charter while the girls wisely slept in and had a relaxing morning.
One of the most amazing things about Pebbly Beach is just how much wildlife is around. There were King Parrots and cockatoos flying around everywhere and more kangaroos than you could count.
The kangaroos in particular were quite happy to get up close and personal (some bread or other food might also have helped).
