AUSTRALIA - The South Coast, July 11 and 12 and 13

July 11
Sunday at church in the AM and PM Pete joined us for the night service. After church we went to Ali's and ate with her and Sarah and Caitlyn (her mom) and Josh. Ali made Roasted Beetroot and Pasta, very interesting.
Ali has three gigs, Melbourne and Sydney so she is gone with the band for two weeks and I won't see her again...*sad*
We ran home so we could go to bed, Sam had to meet friends at church at 430 am to watch the World Cup Soccer.

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July 12
We left for the south coast to go to the Beach where Julie has spent most of the last 25 summers. KIOLOA (said Ki-o-la). We headed for Woollongog and thru the Illawara Region. We turned off at Kiama to see the Kiama Blow Hole, and Bombo Beach. On to Shoalhaven Region and the milk farms.

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Almost ran out of gas and with 7 km left we made it into the town of Berry. At the "Servo" (convenience store) I found "Fruit Tingles" great candy from my childhood. (I ate them all the way down the coast and all the way back the next day!)
In Historic Milton we shopped at some cute stores, then we arrived at Kioloa. BEAUTIFUL. we drove to Merry Beach Shop and had fish and chips. Julie parked us at her usual camp site and she showed me where they camp and took me on a walk on the beach and an explore around the tidepools.
After 4 pm, we drove around on a kangaroo hunt, and WOW they were everywhere. They  are on both sides of the road and in the road and in peoples yards. We drove to Pretty Beach and a whole MOB was there (Mob is an Aboriginal term for family or group, also the term for kangaroos, as in herd etc.)
There was a really pushy male that wanted to tear into Julies pockets. The mummy of the mob watched everyone and rebuked the boys- growling and spanking them (yes two hands on the bottom).

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For dinner we drove into Ulladulla to eat at the "International Restaurant-Italian Cuisine" Had Pizza with veggies and prawns, nice. After that Julie "made" a new outfit for Flat Joy (we both have bought one, so she needed one and we thought she might get cold.)

The mummy with her tiny Joey...

The sweet Mummy

Flat Joy enjoys the Roos

We saw a beautiful double rainbow, it was bigger than half a circle...very cool.




July 13
After strange dreams in unfamiliar beds we droe back to Merry Beach and to the shop and Teri ( a summer friend of Julie's) made us cappicino.Left Kioloa and headed to Ulladulla again to shop at the "rivers" outlet (great outbacky clothes). On the way home from the south, we stopped in Milton too and had lunch at "Pigrims - Wholefood Cafe" (vegetarian) and had a BLISS Burger (veggie patty, avacado, hummus, tabuli, cheese, onion sprouts, cheese and peanut and sweet chilli sauce.) AND a mango smoothie!






 We made it home to Sam and vegged the rest of the night..I blogged! this...