Narrabeen beach looking south
It was very wet during the night, and very cold in our room. I awoke not long after going to bed, and got another blanket to put over us. That helped, but I was still cold through much of the night. This morning I was able to get some heat in the room, so that it was much more comfortable by the time we ate breakfast.
After that we went for a short walk along the beach at Narrabeen. There are many beautiful beaches north of Sydney, and this is one. A few hardy surfers were out early in the morning. They also have breakwater pools that you can swim in. There was one man doing laps, but he was wearing a wetsuit. The water was not very warm. A couple of men were also standing on the pool edge and fishing in the surf. A quad with two surfboards atop came down to the edge of the lagoon where it empties into the ocean, and planted a sign, but we were too far away to read it. Next we walked along the trail to the top of Narrabeen Head, a cliff of perhaps 50 metres high, with spectacular views both north and south along the coast.
We went back to the motorhome dealer and took another look inside our vehicle. We want to get the table lowered about an inch, as it’s just uncomfortably high the way it is. We also looked through it carefully to try and decide what we wanted to purchase in the way of supplies.
We spent the rest of the morning shopping and gathering prices at a small mall just north of here. We discovered a better grocery store than the one we were in yesterday and bought a few more groceries. Then we drove south to where we had seen a camping supply store on the way up yesterday, larryadler.com, which sells Marmot equipment. We bought a tent – but not a Marmot tent, just a much cheaper dome tent. We hope that will be adequate for the few times we’ll need it. I guess we’ll see in just a couple of weeks as our first camping in it will be in the Whitsunday Islands. We also bought a small butane stove and a fuel canister.
Next we continued farther south to the Warringah Mall. This is a very large mall with many stores. The parking lot was packed, and we had to drive around for a long time to find a spot. We stopped in Target to look for some sheets, but couldn’t find much that were priced low enough, though we did get two good pillows. Enid asked a lady who was also shopping where the best place to buy bedding would be, and she indicated “Big W”. It turned out that was an excellent suggestion, as we were able to get almost everything we wanted for our motorhome and probably saved over 20 or 30 % from the other stores we were looking in. So we now have a lot of the goods we’ll need, such as a toaster, tea kettle, pots, some dishes, and bedding. It was a productive shopping trip, and we have enough to make our motorhome useable now.