Back to Cammeray

Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Mon 1 Feb 2016 23:57
Back to Cammeray Marina and More Importantly Beez Neez and the Gang
 
 
 
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We began and ended our tour of Tasmania at Barilla Campsite, being a quiet Monday the chap at the office was happy for us to stay as long as we liked rather than rush to leave at ten o’clock. Cleaning Mabel and packing was the short term plan after breakfast. These Tasmanian hens appeared and Bear threw a slice of bread, one gave a very quick look – left and right – then carried on footering about. Footering – oo I haven’t used that word for years.
 
 
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All done and literally dusted by half twelve we returned Mabel and bade her a very fond farewell. Hugged Nigel and Trev and Nigel really kindly dropped us at the airport. Very sad to leave the lovely island of Tasmania but we notched up fifteen hundred miles and packed in tons, with only one actual day off and one lie-in.
 
 
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We ate our picnic lunch waiting for check-in to open and were soon enjoying a leaving drink in departures. We had changed our via Melbourne to a direct flight a couple of days ago and soon settled on the hour and a half flight back to Sydney, leaving Tasmania with very fond memories, a load of photographs and Russ, bulldozer of the Bush, safely stowed with Beds.
 
 
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Time for a bit of cloud watching.
 
 
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Really interesting shapes on this flight.
 
 
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Over the mainland and then the outskirts of Sydney.
 
 
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Right bank and as the wing lowered Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House appeared.
 
 
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One or two yachts down there then.......
 
 
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Cockatoo Island and nearby Spectacle Island, ferry visits a must.
 
 
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Another look at the bridge.
 
 
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Sydney CBD.
 
 
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Anzac Bridge, on the right, was opened to traffic on the 3rd of December 1995 as the Glebe Island Bridge. The bridge was given its current name on Remembrance Day in 1998 to honour the memory of the soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (known as Anzacs) who served in World War I. An Australian Flag flies atop the eastern pylon and a New Zealand Flag flies atop the western pylon.
 
 
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Bits and bobs.
 
 
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Our shadow as the ground gets closer.
 
 
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Safely on the ground.
 
 
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No sooner than we were parked than refuelling began. We walked through arrivals, which was departures and the next set of passengers ready to go – the same as we did leaving. These beasts may fly but they are glorified buses. A taxi costs the same as the train and two buses and half an hour later we were taking the marina steps slowly, cases adding gravity to the mix. On board by half seven, unpacked and straight by nine. Time for a very special occasion.........
 
 
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Beds introduced Russ to Bernie, Bobby and Claude who were delighted with the massive baby but soon the ever cautious Killick took him under his proverbial wing and demanded we all settle to sleep. No one argues with the ‘sweet tempered’ Killick........Not even me and I’m the captain.........and that’s only because I say you are. Yes dear. Night night.
 
 
 
 
ALL IN ALL A JOY TO BE BACK
                     VERY GOOD BEANS