A day trip south of Sydney

On one of our days in Sydney, Mike had to work, and I didn't have any interviews, so Dave and I took a day trip south along the coast. Royal National Park begins about 20 miles south of Sydney. It's 132 square miles of rolling hills. As far as I could tell, about 131 of those square miles are covered with eucalyptus trees. Like the Blue Mountains, there are lots of different species. We stopped beside a pretty lake.

Just south of the park, we stopped to get a view of the coastline going south.

Not far from where we took the photo above, we stopped again at a little park overlooking the water. We were fascinated by the sign below. So many forbidden things. I always wonder if signs like this one work very well, because it made me want to do something illegal.

We drove through a series of small towns, looking for a place with water views that Dave could paint. We ended up stopping in Kiama, which has a nice park (with a dramatic spring green tree) and a good downtown (with a great used bookstore) where I could walk around while Dave painted.

Here are a bunch of photos of the bay and coastline at Kiama. The second to the last photo is similar to the view that Dave painted.