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Currently we are in Lennox Head, New South Wales just south of Byron’s Bay. we have been surfing our way up the coast. Most of it started in Sydney where we stayed in a Pad with a friend 5 minute’s walk from Bondi Beach. But more on that later......
First place of mention that we stopped was Canberra the Australian capital city. We were told that it was a boring place, so we planned to avoid it, when on our way north Linds realizes that our travel agent hasn’t confirmed her “new” departure date, so we had to go the Canberra office of Singapore Airlines to change her ticket. So we left the coast to go to Canberra. We get there to find out that there is NO Canberra office..... great..... now what. So we happened to go to the info place and get a VERY helpful bloke who then got ahold of the right people at Singapore Airlines and we got Linds’ ticket changed. So now it’s time to see the Capitol city of Australia! First went to the Parliament building, which was okay. No big deal, had this stupid modern “art” painting displayed everywhere. And had lots of Marble. Next was the war memorial, and that alone made the extra 3 hours of driving worth it. I think it has changed my life a little bit. It was so interesting and moving to see what the soldiers did for “queen and country...” It was such a large display that an hour and a half wasn’t enough. I would recommend driving the extra 3 hours to see that if you are ever driving the east coast of australia!
Next place that was worth mentioning was Sydney. At first Jordo and I thought we would just blast through Sydney in two days; see the opera house and hillsong. On our way into the city I text messaged (yes I can text message, although I think it’s lame, but it’s cheaper than calling....) Sebastian, our friend from Mexico that we met in Melbourne. And he invited us to stay with him for however long we wanted. Oh yeah and he lives just walking distance from bondi beach, how cool is that? So we met up with him and I am looking to see where the house is...... it in the back of a beauty salon. Cool. It was this dingy 5 bedroom flat where they never turn the light off in the kitchen because the cockroaches would turn the floor black. At the time of our arrival there was around 10-13 regular roomies in the house, but half were gone but the amount of visitors made it 15 people one night. So it was fun. It was a learning experience for Jordo and I who have both grown up very sheltered, as everyone was smoking joints or bongs every night, on top of drinking excessively. One guy was even growing and then selling Mary Jane from the house.... wow. But they were a very friendly and loving group. It amazes me to see such worldly people loving strangers like only christians could wish they could. I’ve come to the conclusion that Christians can be such pharisees. But anyway, at the time of having 15 dwellers, the house contained 3 Canadians, 1 Aussie (who considered himself a Brit), 5 germans, 2 Irish, 3 Italians and a Mexican. Team international! We had a lot of fun surfing, seeing the city and Opera house with Ana, one of the Germans and chillin with Owen and of course seeing our good buddy Sebastian!!
As for the Opera house, it was FANTASTIC! We met John outside and he took through the back door and security to show us around. the whole time we were him there was another tour going on (it costs about 140 a person) and they were limited in their access but we weren’t! We stood in the ceiling over looking a ballet rehearsal, stood on the stage of the theatre, stood among music stand and percussion instruments of the symphony, were in the roof were they operate the lights, and saw EVERYTHING of the opera house and it didn’t cost anything. It was really amazing.
Hillsong on the other hand was all-together unimpressive. It felt cold and impersonal, even secular. Everything that church means to me, it wasn’t. I’m not going to knock their ministry, because it is big and I am sure it got that way by God, but it’s not my style.
After Sydney we just kept moving north, and there were so many nice places, but no stories of any entertaining value for you guys. A nice place was Seal rocks. We went there because we were told there was free camping there. LIES. So Jordo asked someone in one of the cabins on the oceanfront if they knew where it was and they just invited us to sleep there. It was perfect. There wasn’t any surf so we went snorkeling instead and speared some fish for dinner. While we were snorkeling we saw a sea turtle real close, a huge eel, a stingray which I tried to spear but Jordo thought that we weren’t allowed, and so many colorful fish. It’s amazing how many fish are in the sea!! So yeah, all you single people, when someone says “don’t worry, there are plenty of fish in the sea...” ect there really are HEAPS of fish in the sea. But they are all on the east coast apparently..... So hopefully that gives you some comfort....... it didn’t give me any
Now we are in Lennox head, as I said at the beginning (reduntant I know!), but we are only here because we had some chips that needed to be fixed on our surfboards, so we are staying the night.
First place of mention that we stopped was Canberra the Australian capital city. We were told that it was a boring place, so we planned to avoid it, when on our way north Linds realizes that our travel agent hasn’t confirmed her “new” departure date, so we had to go the Canberra office of Singapore Airlines to change her ticket. So we left the coast to go to Canberra. We get there to find out that there is NO Canberra office..... great..... now what. So we happened to go to the info place and get a VERY helpful bloke who then got ahold of the right people at Singapore Airlines and we got Linds’ ticket changed. So now it’s time to see the Capitol city of Australia! First went to the Parliament building, which was okay. No big deal, had this stupid modern “art” painting displayed everywhere. And had lots of Marble. Next was the war memorial, and that alone made the extra 3 hours of driving worth it. I think it has changed my life a little bit. It was so interesting and moving to see what the soldiers did for “queen and country...” It was such a large display that an hour and a half wasn’t enough. I would recommend driving the extra 3 hours to see that if you are ever driving the east coast of australia!
Next place that was worth mentioning was Sydney. At first Jordo and I thought we would just blast through Sydney in two days; see the opera house and hillsong. On our way into the city I text messaged (yes I can text message, although I think it’s lame, but it’s cheaper than calling....) Sebastian, our friend from Mexico that we met in Melbourne. And he invited us to stay with him for however long we wanted. Oh yeah and he lives just walking distance from bondi beach, how cool is that? So we met up with him and I am looking to see where the house is...... it in the back of a beauty salon. Cool. It was this dingy 5 bedroom flat where they never turn the light off in the kitchen because the cockroaches would turn the floor black. At the time of our arrival there was around 10-13 regular roomies in the house, but half were gone but the amount of visitors made it 15 people one night. So it was fun. It was a learning experience for Jordo and I who have both grown up very sheltered, as everyone was smoking joints or bongs every night, on top of drinking excessively. One guy was even growing and then selling Mary Jane from the house.... wow. But they were a very friendly and loving group. It amazes me to see such worldly people loving strangers like only christians could wish they could. I’ve come to the conclusion that Christians can be such pharisees. But anyway, at the time of having 15 dwellers, the house contained 3 Canadians, 1 Aussie (who considered himself a Brit), 5 germans, 2 Irish, 3 Italians and a Mexican. Team international! We had a lot of fun surfing, seeing the city and Opera house with Ana, one of the Germans and chillin with Owen and of course seeing our good buddy Sebastian!!
As for the Opera house, it was FANTASTIC! We met John outside and he took through the back door and security to show us around. the whole time we were him there was another tour going on (it costs about 140 a person) and they were limited in their access but we weren’t! We stood in the ceiling over looking a ballet rehearsal, stood on the stage of the theatre, stood among music stand and percussion instruments of the symphony, were in the roof were they operate the lights, and saw EVERYTHING of the opera house and it didn’t cost anything. It was really amazing.
Hillsong on the other hand was all-together unimpressive. It felt cold and impersonal, even secular. Everything that church means to me, it wasn’t. I’m not going to knock their ministry, because it is big and I am sure it got that way by God, but it’s not my style.
After Sydney we just kept moving north, and there were so many nice places, but no stories of any entertaining value for you guys. A nice place was Seal rocks. We went there because we were told there was free camping there. LIES. So Jordo asked someone in one of the cabins on the oceanfront if they knew where it was and they just invited us to sleep there. It was perfect. There wasn’t any surf so we went snorkeling instead and speared some fish for dinner. While we were snorkeling we saw a sea turtle real close, a huge eel, a stingray which I tried to spear but Jordo thought that we weren’t allowed, and so many colorful fish. It’s amazing how many fish are in the sea!! So yeah, all you single people, when someone says “don’t worry, there are plenty of fish in the sea...” ect there really are HEAPS of fish in the sea. But they are all on the east coast apparently..... So hopefully that gives you some comfort....... it didn’t give me any
Now we are in Lennox head, as I said at the beginning (reduntant I know!), but we are only here because we had some chips that needed to be fixed on our surfboards, so we are staying the night.
Go to a nice small church tomorrow, cause that’s our style!
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