Another extra day in Sydney: Today I wanted to show Jacky the famous Bondi Beach. The weather was pretty good, just a few clouds and no rain. Adele was heading for Victoria so we agreed to take her to the airport. After a few mistakes with the GPS we managed to get her there and hour before her flight, fortunately we gave ourselves plenty of time to get there. From the airport we headed out to Bondi. The sun was out, the beach looked good, there plenty of surfers in the water a few brave swimmers. Even though it was a little warmer than it had been it was still a long way from swimming weather. I strolled up and down the beach and took a few photos while Jacky had a cuppa and read her book. After that we walked down to the end of the boardwalk and then back u the main street for lunch at HJs.

Bondi Beach

Bondi Beach

After lunch we headed back to Penrith, the repairs on the Landcruiser were almost finished and we wanted to find a laundry to catch up with our washing. I dropped Jacky at the laundry and went around to the workshop to see how the Landcruiser was going. It turned out that the front brakes were nearly on metal as well. This may have all been avoided if I had of persisted in trying to locate a workshop last week. When I first arrived in the Blue Mountains I called about 4 mechanical workshops but couldn’t get a service done until Wed of this week so I gave up. Perhaps I should have called 13 11 11 then for advice. It took about an hour before I had the trailer hitched, the hire car returned and all the paperwork completed and when I got back to the laundry Jacky was taking the last items out of the dryer. She had an enjoyable time there chatting with the manager on duty, the manager was even helping her fold all the clothes as they came out of the dryer. Apparently you can leave your washing there and picked it up clean and folded later for not much more than the cost of using the machines.

We headed back to the Blue Mountains as the rain started to come down again.