Day 306 - Tuesday 31 October - Checking out Jervis Bay

Day 306 –

Tuesday

31 October – Finished off “The Man Of My Dream” by Curtis Sittenfeld. I am glad this book is finished. I didn’t really enjoy this book. The character was a psychotic mess who I didn’t warm to at all.

Started the new Dan Brown novel “ Origin”. I have enjoyed the previous incantations of this character and am looking forward to seeing where we are lead this time.

Batemans Bay – Nowra – Huskisson

Paul was awake just before 7am and began reading, while I pulled the quilt over my head to keep sleeping. I didn’t stay that way for long and began reading as well, finally finishing my book. 

Paul was out of bed first and when I had completed the final page of the novel, I was up and organising myself and breakfast. I went for a shower, when Paul returned and at breakfast when I was back.

Paul was busily gathering everything we needed for our day and once I had got my things together, we hit the road. We were driving north to return to Nowra so that Paul could visit HopDog BeerWorks a brewery we had attempted to check out a couple of weekends ago.

We rang ahead and spoke to Tim the brewer, letting him know we were on our way and then we settled into the 1hour ½ drive that took us back through Ulladulla, then onto Milton and a number of other small centres. I busied myself, sewing up a hole in my hoodie and surfing the net and by 11am we were finally passing by the brewery.

There was a small rest area nearby, so we stopped in there to stretch the legs. I had a phone call from Nigel, the guy running the We Love Craft Beer website, organising our visit for this weekend. It will be kind of surreal meeting after months of conversing online and through the Facebook page, but we are all looking forward to it.

As we were early for our brewery meet up, we drove in to town and stopped in at the large shopping centre. We did a wander around and I picked up the last season of Pretty Little Liars to keep me going as well as, season 3 of A Place To Call Home. Unfortunately Offspring 7 hasn’t been released yet, so I will have to wait.

We did a small grocery shop and then returned to the car and the brewery only to find it shut. We didn’t have to wait for long, with Tim arriving 10min later. We made ourselves at home, chatting and looking around, then Paul tried the beers and had his squealers filled in readiness for meeting up with Nigel. With his job out of the way we were free to continue our sightseeing.

 

 

I wanted to get out and see Jervis Bay after reading up on it in one of the tourist magazines. We set the GPS to Huskisson and headed east towards the coast. After a 20min drive, we could see the bay. We followed the main street through the centre of the bustling but small town and found a parking spot overlooking the bay.

 

Being nearly 2pm, we were starving, so we headed for a park bench, put our rolls together and ate, happily feeding our growling bellies. Once that job was done, we were free to checkout the view. The water was so clear and such beautiful shades of blue. The sand was also a lot whiter than what we have seen at other beaches down the coast and this only helped the water seem so much brighter. We did a lap along the front, before heading up into the street and returning to the car.

 

Satisfied with the look around, I set the GPS for home and we began the 120km trek back down the Princes Highway and back to Batemans Bay. I again busied myself with the tourist mags and surfing the net and before long we were pulling into the caravan park.

As there was no one occupying the site behind us, Paul decided to load up the car on the trailer so there was one less thing to do in the morning. I helped with what I could and then retreated inside out of the wind and cool air.

I got on with the computer stuff for the day while also watching the first couple of PLL episodes. Paul sat and wrote his review, while giving a commentary on all the things wrong with what I was watching. 

When I was done watching a couple of episodes, we did a quick walk around the park and then I got stuck into dinner, as we were both starving. It didn't take long to prepare and then devour. I washed up the dishes and then figured we should go for a walk as the step count was looking rather sad. 

We followed the path back into Batehaven, thankfully the wind had dropped right off and although it was cool, it was pleasant outside and the walk was just what was needed to help settle the bellies. 

After an hour of walking, we returned to the van ready to take ourselves to bed.