Foiled again

Sydney, 09/17/08

Perhaps they get asked the same question too many times, or its just the fact they want to do everything differently then how one would expect the world to work. But toilets in Australia (and new Zealand) do not swirl. No swirling action at all. Neither clockwise or counter-clockwise. Aussie toilet just dump water from all directions and push any contents straight down the pipe. So when someone ask you which was does a toilet flush in Australia, you tell them that its a trick question. One final interesting side note in the toilets in that most have two flushing modes. A little flush and a big flush. The only thing I have found that the little flush ends up doing is causing you to waste more water when then you have to push the big flush to finish the job.

Today was beach day. In the morning we took the train out to Bondi Beach. Its a sleepy little beach town within spitting distance of Sydney. It was cute. the shear cliffs into the ocean were breath taking and the people really friendly. At the beginning of the Bondi Beach hike, you go look at the Aborigine carvings. To do this required walking straight through an active golf course that shares this site. And the other then being asked by one old man to move over a little to the side some so we wouldn't get hit by his bad drive, no one took any notice of us.

Upon returning to Sydney, we got a rental car (an automatic) and drove south to the Royal National Park and Garie Beach. Garie Beach is a quiet undeveloped beach that seems worlds apart from Sydney which is really only minutes away. The beach is surrounded by shear cliffs and valleys with small streams flowing slowly in to the sea. I loved it!!! as you walked around you could feel the stress leak out of your body and seep into the sand like the small streams flowing from the mountains. This has been a good day.