Dam Day

On the way to Bundanoon I called in to have a look at Avon and Nepean Dams.

Very short walks across the dam walls.

First Avon Dam

On the way back crossing the Nepean River 

Then Nepean Dam 

A little on the boring side but it had to be done and crossed off my list. 

Taking it Easy

My knee is still playing up and the recent MRI has shown, among others things, a medial meniscus tear. This is a tear in the cartilage that cushions the knee. The word nowadays is to not intervene surgically but to build up the muscles to further support the knee. Walking is OK but on the flat only. I think my idea of flat and the specialists are different. He means football oval flat. This makes it hard to find walks but a few local ones seem to fit the bill.

A walk with the big lens chasing birds at the RTA reserve at Ourimbah.

Brown Thornbill

White-browed Scrub Wren 

Eastern Yellow Robin 

Superb Wren 

Bellbird 

Fish ladder, Ourimbah Creek 

Kookaburra 

Another walk at Chittaway Point 

Darter 

Striped Honeyeater 

Pied Cormorant 

Crested Tern 

Pelican 

Then a walk at Tacoma 

 Wyong River where it enters the lake 

Looking across Tuggerah Lake to The Entrance 

And another short walk at Crosslands along Berowra Creek to Calna Creek and back. 

Hare Bay

I had spent the night in my cot tent in the car park at Red Point so I could have an early start for my paddle. 

Launching off the beach at Red Point on a perfect day.

Heading towards Green Point. No swell to speak of and little wind. 

The rocks and beacon at Green Point. 

Long Beach in the military range on Beecroft Peninsular. The signage on the beach said the range was open so I could legally land. 

I set my sights on a smaller beach just past Long Beach. Crystal clear water over sand and sea grass bottom. 

My unnamed beach for a well earned stretch. 

I walked on the rock platforms on both side of my beach. 

First down to the very pretty Figtree Inlet 

And then down to Long Beach. 

Heading back I again rounded Green Point. 

And stopped on Chinamans Beach. 

I had stopped here to walk on the beach under a forest of magnificent Fig Trees 

Back in the kayak it was off into the shallows of Carama Creek where I had walked the day before. 

Just enough of a breeze to push me slowly out of the creek against the tide before the paddle back down the bay to Red Point. 

19.6klm for the morning which include about 2klm of walking on the beaches and rocks.