Moriah's visit

While Moriah was here for the tele-conversation we took advantage of a beautiful day and hiked around the west head of Pittwater Bay (northern bit of Sydney). (Check out Moriah's blog for more photos of that day. A link is on the right. Using your mouse you can touch any of the photos and see a larger view. The photo on Moriah's blog of red splatter hand print is ancient aboriginal art.)

This mound is the very end of the northern beaches peninsula called Barrenjoey Head. We love to hike with visitors to the lighthouse on the top of that headland. The near side is Pittwater Bay and the far side is the Pacific Ocean.

I love grass trees. They are unlike any tree I've seen in North America. (In a photo on Moriah's blog, I am tasting the nectar from a grass tree flower stem.)

We pause to read maps of the area. We are looking off West head across Broken Bay. The Hawksbury River flows from the left towards Broken Bay, past Pittwater Bay and on into the Pacific. It was gorgeous.

One New Years in the early nineteen-nineties, we joined friends on a houseboat in this area. It was one of the best New Years Eve we have ever had.

From the highest point in the Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, we could see to the left across the end of Pittwater Bay and the northern beaches peninsula to the Pacific. (We live to the right just south of the peninsula.)

From that point we looked straight ahead into down-town Sydney.

Relaxing, enjoyable hike; come again Moriah.