Chasin' the Blues Away

Today is ANZAC day where Australia and New Zealand celebrate our worst defeat at Gallipoli although these days, it's a tribute day to all our troops at home and abroad.

So, while Adam attended the dawn service, got soaked on his motorbike and then made up for his day with a round of Two-Up and copious amounts of alcohol, the would-be-if-we-could-be's took off and did lunch!

Clare bought me a lunch voucher for Christmas that was burning a hole in my pocket so some time ago, I booked Doyles. totally overpriced but wonderful seafood restaurant on the bay beach at Watson's Bay in Sydney's exclusive Eastern Suburbs. She was blue, the weather was awful and we nearly called the whole jam off but . . hey, what else do you do on a chilly, wet, windy ANZAC day. I'm glad we went. It was wonderful.

Of course when I booked it was a sunny 28 degrees so I asked for an outside table on the beach . . brrrr . . it was windy and cold and black clouds threatened a downpour, so no comments about the frizz that occasionally goes by the name 'hair'. The sun did make an appearance just as we were eating so it was quite lovely sitting there and pretending to be rich and famous.

The skies were threatening but no rain thankfully

We shared a dozen Sydney Rock Oysters which were so perfect, so fresh, they winced when we splodged a little lemon on them . . . some garlic bread and this . . a seafood platter of garfish, calamari, lobster, scallops, prawns, smoked salmon and blue swimmer crab . . .all washed down with a nice Cockfighter's Ghost Semillon! I'm still pogged 4 hours later!

And this was lunch . . .we couldn't eat it all and left half a crab
nearly all the chips and a roll of smoked salmon . .
I know . .so wasteful

A very nice tourist eating all on his own
(if he'd stayed longer we probably would have asked him to join us)
took this photo of us both.Two up. Traditional ANZAC day game of heads or tails is played at the pub next door.
This guy's taking bets on his phone!

Time to walk it off at The Gap . . South Head looks at North Head.

Many have flung, or been flung, to their deaths here.
We just took in the view

Macquarie Lighthouse, the first in Australia.
Designed and built by emancipated convict Francis Greenway

Queen Victoria's surprised visage adorns the main
door to the lighthouse . . Oh hai! She lookz a bitz like me!

Now about those blues . . .my beautiful, confident, intelligent, fun-loving, talented, awesome daughter needs a man. Not a boy, not an accessory but a nice, well mannered, intelligent, independent, well-travelled man. He must be nice looking, affectionate, considerate, happy to back-pack a good conversationalist and it would help if he can find his way around a kitchen. Where on earth are they all?

Yeh I know . . . Nevada!