Still in Newcastle with a camping trip to Sydney

We are still in Newcastle we bought some second hand bicycles to get around a bit easier. Amy is really happy to have a bike as at home she doesn’t have anywhere to ride one. She asks to go at least once a day but likes to go twice or more if possible. We haven't done much at all in the last couple of weeks with the rain and we went camping in Sydney for 5 days. 



Amy having a great time riding her bike along the water front walking and bike way.

 

Amy has found a cat that always has it’s tongue hanging out. Would you believe its name is GRUMPS and looks really evil. Remind you of anyone?

 

 

We decided to go to Sydney for 5 days so I could experience some other emergency departments, as it turned out I only got to experience one. Lane Cove National Park which is not far from North Ryde train station became our base. We packed up 2 hiking back packs with 2 small tents and sleeping bags. It would have been nice to have some chairs to sit on but we didn't have any and it would have made the bags too heavy to carry.

Back packs loaded off to Sydney camping we go,

Camping in Lane Cove National Park, Sydney



Hyde Park, Sydney

While in Sydney we did some exploring of the Australian museum, Maritime Museum, Hyde Park and Darling Harbour. Daniel doesn't remember ever coming to the Australian Museum we used to visit  a few times a week when he was little with Kathleen and Michael. The museum isn't as big as I remember it either.


Hyde Park, Sydney

 

Amy at the Australian Museum



 

Wendy and Amy after enjoying a BBQ at the camp ground at Lane Cove National Park.

 While having a BBQ dinner we had 3 kookaburra's and a magpie watching us. Amy had a piece of meat in her hand that was shaped like a kookaburra after she had taken some bites out of it a kookaburra came down ans snatched it out of her hand and scared the life out of her and us. The only thing is that Ian didn't get a photo of it even though he had the camera in his hand.

Ian wanted to visit the Maritime Museum we have visited a few different one now but the kids love going onto the warships and this time we even got to go on a submarine I knew there wouldn't have been much room but was quite surprised by how little room there really was and to think it was staffed by over 60 people is amazing,

Captain Amy giving her first mate Daniel orders
 

Amy manning the gun



Daniel going into the submarine