Winter Wonderland
Winter seems to breeze by when you have someone to cuddle up to in the cold
When a personal radiator will warm up your frozen fingers.
When you sleep more soundly when you hear the breath of someone sleeping next to you.
Now winter feels like the cliche winter expression: frosty, windy, gloomy and cold.
A lonely picture I paint.
So emo.
Eiran hopped on a plane and spent a month with me over the winter uni holidays.
Had a whole itinerary planned out, complete with lots of chill-out do-nothing days..
Waiting at the airport for someone was a new experience for me.
It was a total "Love Actually" moment..
I could see the camera expression as I waited.
Camera focuses on my eagerly searching self, while people around me are reunited with their loved ones
Tears, hugs, laughs.. the works..
Meanwhile, I still patiently, and then not-so-patiently, wait for my 'someone' to walk out of those gates.
But finally he walks out.
It's good to have a low maintenance boyfriend.
Most of the time we just spent sitting on the lawn at the Botanical Gardens, feeding the ducks and moorhens stale bread.
Or sitting by the Harbour fishing with a $55 cheapo rod..
My birthday surprise for the boy was to take him to the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, thanks to the BridgeClimb Experience
I really recommend this to anyone that's visiting Sydney.
It's so awesome.
Can't explain it.
Climbing to the top of the Bridge, seeing the Sydney Opera House and the glory of Darling Harbour in the glow of the sunset,
Watching the blue blue sky fade into a mix of deep orange and blood red, then like fireflies, the night lights of Sydney City come alive, while comets of red light flash right underneath you as the cars of Sydney whizz back and forth on the Bridge.
Sucks that they don't let you take any cameras on the Climb itself.
Everywhere I looked just screamed "OMG, PHOTO OPP!"..
Everywhere I looked just screamed "OMG, PHOTO OPP!"..
The few 'photos' that they take for you, to be sold to you at the end of the Climb were blurry and out of focus AND a total rip..
But thankfully I have the memories in my head.
The Grand Pacific Drive hugs the South Coast all the way from Sydney down to Wollongong
We stopped at Bald Hill Lookout Point, where hanggliders take off from
The view from there was amazing
And as we looked out towards the sea, Eiran's sharp eyes caught a glimpse of splashes in the water..
"Dolphin! Dolphin!" said I..
"Nolah.. big fish..." said Eiran..
"... must be a pretty damn big fish..." thinks I..
They were whales!! Migrating down south to breed, they're fairly abundant at this time of year..
But still, how awesome is it to see migrating whales..
We went on a whale watching cruise in Jervis Bay, which was awesome.. But more on that later..
For now, just enjoy pictures..
