After a good nights sleep in our little seaside cottage we were again blessed with beautiful weather. The Gods had been kind to us since we had arrived. As everyone knows, when the sun shines everything seems so much more alive. Hyams Beach certainly had that feel on this sunny morning.
Our plan today was to drive into Huskisson and dolphin watch. We had booked this on the previous day and were excited at the prospect of seeing the resident pod of bottlenosed dolphins, which inhabit Jervis Bay.
The intensive sun had force me to purchase a baseball cap. What a bargain $5.00, about £3.20, a great buy!
We elected to sit on the top deck and take in the view as we left the jetty and motored out into the bay.
before long we were alerted to the pod of Dolphins.!!!
Seeing these creatures in their natural state and environment really brought it home to us that marine parks only restrain these tremendous creatures. The pod followed the boat for over 30 minutes riding the bow wave and we saw a least two calves, with their mothers in close attendance, interacting with the wake made by the boats propellers. The experience will stay with me forever. It was so much more than I had expected and was good value for money.
Once on dry land we were faced with the ever present problem of Ben needing to eat. I had forgotten how much food this machine could eat. We made do with a light lunch and headed for a beach about 10 miles away at the other end of the bay. Ben had researched Murray's Beach and had declared this was the place to snorkel. We arrived, as ever, in the beach car park, after encountering at the side of the road two Grey Kangaroos.
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Wild life just at the side of the road!.JPG)
The beach was magnificent and provided a lighthearted highlight to the holiday, namely someone, who after encountering a large sea creature " babbed" his swimming trunks and exited the water at a rate of knots not even an Olympic swimmer could match.
" It was a least a twelve foot Stingray and you know what happened to Steve Irwin" spluttered Ben. Pauline was all sympathetic, Anna disgusted at this lack of toughness. I just shook my head and muttered " wouldn't have lasted two minutes down the pit."
Just as we were leaving a Wallaby just hopped out of the undergrowth and sat there chewing some grass. The wild life again astounding .
We returned home to our little cottages singing the praises of this part of Australia, but more was to come that evening. We had booked a table at the Stonegrill, a restaurant where you cooked your own meal on hot stones. Weird, but wonderful, and Anna cooked her veggie dish also on the hot stones ...a great meal, with much laughter.
On the drive back we pulled over and witnessed a wonderful sight, the Milky Way in all its glory. The dark clear sky was perfect for viewing this natural event, now sadly missing from our light polluted sky's back home.
Another perfect end to a perfect day.
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