Wow -- we had 1½ days without rain! That was good. I spent a very nice Saturday in
Penrith (50 km west of Sydney), playing guitar with Peter and enjoying a walk at the banks of Nepean River and watching people go down the artificial Olympic whitewater (
Wildwasser) slalom course in rubber rafts (
Gummibooten). It's a bit like the
Eiskanal in Augsburg, but bigger and the course is in a circle, the water being pumped up at an amazing volume of 14 m³/s. From the finish, the boats can get conveniently back up to the starting point on a big conveyor belt (
Förderband). Sorry I can't show you any pictures of this, I didn't take my camera with me.
But what I can show you is another pretty spot called
Castle Cove. It's quite close (11 km) to Sydney's center but it's a very idyllic and unspoilt place. The 'castle' is a private residential house built in the 19th century by an Australian parliamentarian, Henry Willis.
Wow -- we had 1½ days without rain! That was good. I spent a very nice Saturday in Penrith (50 km west of Sydney), playing guitar with Peter and enjoying a walk at the banks of Nepean River and watching people go down the artificial Olympic whitewater (Wildwasser) slalom course in rubber rafts (Gummibooten). It's a bit like the Eiskanal in Augsburg, but bigger and the course is in a circle, the water being pumped up at an amazing volume of 14 m³/s. From the finish, the boats can get conveniently back up to the starting point on a big conveyor belt (Förderband). Sorry I can't show you any pictures of this, I didn't take my camera with me.
But what I can show you is another pretty spot called Castle Cove. It's quite close (11 km) to Sydney's center but it's a very idyllic and unspoilt place. The 'castle' is a private residential house built in the 19th century by an Australian parliamentarian, Henry Willis.
1 comment:
ätsch, wir haben schon 2 1/2 Tage ohne Regen ! aber mehr wird es nicht werden, wenn es laut wettervorhersage heut nachmittag gewittert. wenigstens wird es nimmer kalt, ich dachte schon, wir sollen für die nachwelt erhalten werden: langsam gekühlt und dann gefrostet...gruß ziggy
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