On the weekend W and I went up to Boomerang beach (fondly known as “Boomers” to the locals) that was right next to Blueys beach and on the doorstep of Booti Booti National Park.. Australia sure has a way with names! It was nice to get away for a couple of days. I only seem to ever eat junk food on roadtrips and had a record breaking two meals at Maccas.. urk! And our digs were a lot nicer than it looked in the pictures which is a first!
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Back in Sydney after a long weekend of blue skies and roads and bliss. More later.
Have a massive amount of pictures from my trip. I usually travel with a laptop but this time around I was armed with a 16GB SD card and have just spent the last five hours of my Saturday night sorting out the pictures. Here are some from when we went to Fraser’s Hill.
I was late picking Joshua up in the AM, so by the time we all finally had lunch and got going we missed the 1:40pm drive up the Gap. It was also partly because neither me nor Joshua had been there before so finding our way to the base of the hill took a little on-the-fly navigating and some help from Google Maps on my iPhone!
Cruisin'
Chilling out in the sun (photo from Cheryl)
Our first arvo at the bungalow. A short while after this was taken, Joshua brought out his djembes and we had a tambourine and sat in the sun taking turns to play them while Chak sang with his guitar.
Having dessert after the first dinner (photo from Cheryl)
The bungalow we rented was catered, and most of the ingredients from our meals were grown locally. Here we were having ice cream with fresh raspberries!
With Chak and KY (photo from Cheryl)
There really isn’t much to do up there. We found a waterfall!
We had a fireplace!
The bungalow was awesome. There was a fireplace and all, and the caretakers had plastered the place with festive decorations. I couldn’t figure out who Malcolm and Matilda were, my room had those names stuck on the cupboards in big, colourful letters. And to add to the awesomeness, Chak brought his coffee machine along.
Chak looks really chuffed with his present (photo from Cheryl)
Gift exchange! I drew Amelia’s present which was a really nice hand-lettered postcard book by Ray Fenwick. We were trying to look super excited posing with our presents and as usual Chak outdid everyone else. By the look on his face you’d think he got a 20-inch dildo!
Mandatory group photo! L-R: Chak, Joshua, Steph, Cheryl, Minh, Amelia, Keng Yew
I had a really good time up there. It was one of those really chilled-out trips with really chilled-out people, where we all did our own thing.. together. Amelia now has me addicted to a board game called Shadow Hunters! I wish I had a picture of us playing this into the wee hours of the morning.
The drive back down was a little more exciting, KY had driven off in a different car and left Chak stranded up there for another couple of hours. I barely had enough gas for the drive to KKB but we made it in the end. Would have loved to have one more day there! Thanks for organising this trip, Chak :)
It has been good being back in KL. It always feels like I’ve never left although there are telltale signs that I have: friends in new jobs, new hangouts, new circles. But the people that make KL so special are still the same.
I’m not sure why I came back again so soon. My original intentions were lost in the few weeks from when I booked my tickets to when I left Brisbane. But essentially it is family that keeps me coming back and I think I always will.
Been up to all sorts of naughty things. Shopping with T, eating my way around town, galavanting with the best of friends; there are so many new things to do here and I’m trying to fit as much in as I possibly can in the next two weeks! Already it feels like I’ve been here forever when it has really only been a few days.
Currently up at Fraser’s Hill with some friends. The drive up was fun and we spent our first afternoon in the sun with EE’s guitar, two djembes and a tambourine. The bungalow EE booked is gorgeous and this was the view we were greeted with:
