After two indoor days either paying scrabble or computers, it was nice to have a day walking with the group.  One of our walkers is a volunteer for the Botanical Gardens and she kindly took 17 of us for a tour.  We had lunch with the view shown above, one of the most photographed scenes of Sydney but what a view it is.  In the vegie garden I got close to the scarecrow and further up the paths got friendly with one on the two lions at the Lion Gate.  It was a great day.
At Norma's yesterday, we celebrated Margaret's birthday with a lunch and lots of cups of tea and coffee.  The cake was delicious.

With all the rain last week it was time spent indoors.  I finished the above 'Impossible' puzzle and enjoyed doing it.  There was a day of scrabble and another day of computers and the rest of the time was lazily spent with one thing an another.  John and I did go to the movies and saw Beautiful Lies which was excellent , not like The Tree of Life which John could have happily left after 10 mins.

Two walks this week, one with John and then with the U3A group.  John and I walked from Waverton Station to Greenwich Wharf which the guide book said was 7 k but with the hills it felt lots more.  Fridays

walk which I led from Manly wharf to almost North Head ended as the rain began to pelt down just after we had lunch and it would have been to dangerous to walk some of the tracks down to the Head.  It will be another time.

As I am leading the next walk, I had to do a prewalk to find where we will eat, toilets and making sure that the walk is within the set limits.  Four of us went on a beautiful but cold day from Manly right around North Head and back to the wharf.  Great day and am prepared for Friday.

Mum and dad love bird



Three babies



Mum sitting on babies

There were 6 eggs and last week one was tossed out of the nest.  On the 6th, there were three baby chicks and the other two eggs still in the nest.  It will be interesting to see what colours the babies will be.

Again I got off the train at Sutherland and walked to the car park at the sports centre.  From there we pooled cars for the walk at Mt Annan Botanic Gardens.  A great day covering about 8 kms through rough and smooth terrain.  I fell when we were going down a very damp gully and lucky for me I had my backpak on which cushioned the full.  No damage just a damp rear. 
I haven't played scrabble for over 13 years and decided to attend the old venue at Oatley RSL.  You wouldn't believe it but half the people there were from my time.  Anyway we played 6 games with a break for lunch half way and I did enjoy the games even though I only won 2 out of 6.  I'll go back on Tuesday.