A walk on the whale side...

It's whale season so I've been looking out for spashes and fins and tails, morning noon and night.

Keeping such a close eye on the ocean has made me appreciate again what an amazing place it is that I live.....

Beautiful, calm seas with almost cloudless skies (even in winter! the temperature topped 25 degrees today). This is the view from the balcony.

The sunrises are pretty amazing too and mornings have proved to be the best time to see the odd whale and dolphin. Unfortunately my camera broke last week so I haven't managed to take an actual photo of the passing sealife. So instead of leaving the blog without its weekly entry I have borrowed a couple of photos to give you the general idea.

After some false alarms (birds and boats can look surprisingly like whales), I've managed to see a few of them on their long journey up the east coast. See below for typical example of killer whale behaviour - the whales travelling up our coast are humpbacks but I liked this picture better...

Top Gear

Yesterday was a very exciting day for the residents of Oceanview Avenue. We made another trip to the country to pick up Clare's new, very sporty, red car - a Mazda RX8. After a lovely lunch with Clare's huge family (they had all come over to see the car), we set off back to Sydney to see how the car handled on the country roads and on the motorway.
I was only a passenger but it was very exciting never-the-less.

In my opinion the torque split, all-wheel drive system achieves a fine balance between sporty control that makes it particularly fun to drive with good handling stability on snowy or wet surfaces or under other challenging road conditions.
We didn't look quite so cool when we pulled in to the petrol station and couldn't work out how to open the petrol cap.

A little bit of extra exciting news is that I have applied for my moped test/licence which means that while Clare is sporting around in her new car, I'll be able to scoot around Sydney on her moped!!! It probably won't go as fast as the car though.....