After breakfast in Bondi we set off on our drive up the coast. Let me tell you…it was quite an adventure driving on the left side of the road for the first time. Every time we switched lanes we would turn on the windshield wipers when we meant to use the turn signals…they are located on the opposite side of the steering wheel here. It took us a while to get the hang of it and we cracked ourselves up every time we did it.
When I lived in Bondi Beach about 5 years ago, I went on a road trip with my friend Joel Olenik, who was visiting from California. On the road trip we stayed with some of Joel’s friends, Shano & Pete, in Crescent Head. I fell in love with this beautiful little beach side town and had so much fun with Shano and Pete. So a week before Rana and I left for Australia, I emailed Shano and told him of our upcoming visit. He responded that unfortunately he would be in Hawaii, but that we were more than welcome to stay at his home in Crescent Head. I got so busy before we left that I didn’t respond until I got to Sydney, but Crescent Head is such a small town (population of 1,200) that I figured I could find the house again and hopefully someone would be there, and if not then we could just keep driving to the Gold Coast to Rana’s apartment. But as luck would have it I found the house, so I peeked my head in and there was Pete sitting on the couch! He gave me a big hug and told us to make ourselves at home…funny how things always tend to work out! :)
After going for a walk along the cliffs and watching a beautiful sunset over the hills, we went to dinner at the only restaurant in town that’s open after 8pm and had one of the best meals that I’ve had in a long time and washed it down with several Toohey’s New (a good Australian beer).
