Day 5, Friday December 18, 2009

Today we went to the coast. I'm not sure where the past 2 90 degree days went as today was cloudy, windy and cold.  We stopped at a Bakery on the way down and I had a chocolate muffin and hot chocolate.  There was the biggest loaf of bread I ever saw.  Aunt Paula bought a loaf to bring home.

When we got to Bateman's Bay we stopped at several beaches along the way. This is the first time I have ever seen the Pacific ocean.

We ate lunch at the Boat House and had fish and chips to eat.  There were Pelicans and Coramorons in the water as we watched them swim back and forth.  A little info. about Pelicans. They can hold twice as much food in their mouths as they can their stomachs.  They lay eggs in a nest and the male sits on them for 2 wks then the female comes back. The brown in the pelican represents a juvenile.

It never got warm or sunny enough for me to go swimming.  I was freezing the entire time.  Wouldn't you know when we got back to Canberra the sun was shining and not a cloud in the sky.  Maybe next time!