Saturday March 28th

Well I’ve been here a couple days so I thought I’d let you know how I’ve been doing since I arrived. I arrived at about noon on Saturday and after de-planeing and going through customs, Tom was right there waiting for me. We hopped in the car to head the 2.5-3 hours back to his place. So even as of now all I have seen of Sydney is the airport and some of the streets heading out of town. The drive down to his place is actually a quite nice drive. He doesn’t live that far mileage-wise. All the roads leading out of Sydney though are that, roads, not highways. The road we took south was called Princes Highway, but a lot of the time it was just 2 lanes and the speed limit was lower than what we would travel on a highway in the US. It’s just that with Australia having such a small population (about 20 million compared with 300 million in the US, and Australia is about the size of the lower 48) so there’s a hell of a lot less people paying taxes to go towards building and upkeep of roads, especially not ones in the major cities. Anyway, the drive was nice. Everything is so green! It really is beautiful. The drive does go down the coast so part of the time we could see the ocean. We passed several wineries and Tom mentioned about hitting up a few later on. We made a couple quick stops in Berry and Nowra (at the Kmart to pick up some hangers for my room) and finally arrived in Huskisson mid to late afternoon. Tom lives in a little complex that backs up to a river (technically it’s called Currambene Creek) that empties into Jervis Bay. He gave me the tour of the house. It’s nice, it’s got 3 bedrooms, a patio, a balcony, nice kitchen and garage. I get a room with a double bed and 2 bathrooms to myself. One is a powder room with a toilet and sink and the other has a shower, bath and sink. We headed down to the local pub to grab dinner and a beer and sat outside overlooking the bay. We were able to walk there because everything is just so close. Huskisson is a holiday town. Tom says in the summer it is always packed. And it should be crazy in a couple weeks, come the Easter holiday. I’ve never been to the Outer Banks, but it’s somewhat how I would imagine an Outer Banks town. Small, beaches, where people holiday, but you tend to forget people live there. It’s nice though, apparently there’s a lot to do. Whale and dolphin watching trips, dive center, you can rent motor boats and kayaks, bikes, there’s a nice walking path that goes like 15 km down the coast of the bay. I will have to explore more in the days ahead while Tom is at work. I also met Tom’s next door neighbor, Dave, whom he hangs out with a bit. Dave is in the navy and lives here, while his family lives in Adelaide. I headed to bed around 9, I am after all pretty tired and still kind of on East Coast US time.





Look for Jervis Bay, the 4th listed along the coast south of Sydney



Huskisson is where I am!