Royal National Park and Bondi Beach

Our next stop was Royal National Park. It was just a couple hours drive to the cliff hike at the southern end of the park. There were some beautiful views along the hike and the girls (as usual) were super hikers!

Trying to scale the fence...we caught them just in time!

The coastline south of Sydney was beautiful!

...and so are these lovely ladies!


The girls found this natural swing along the trail that served as a diversion for a few minutes.


Our next stop in the park was at Jibbon Beach, which we re-named squeaky beach! The sand made this really neat squeaking sound when you walked on it.

We walked the length of the beach to see the aboriginal rock engravings near Bundeena. They were very difficult to find, but finally, we managed.




Danielle had found an African dance class to take at Bondi Beach in Sydney. So we headed north...

Getting to Bondi Beach was not too difficult even without a great road map of Sydney (I'm not sure if they make a great road map of Sydney, but we sure could not find one...). We found some delicious Thai take-out and hung out on the beach, paid a ridiculous amount of money to park, and found Danielle's dance class.



While she took class, the girls and I had a lot of fun at the playground that is adjacent to the beach.




Later that evening, we found a real gem of a campground at Lanes Cove National Park, just north of the city. More about that in the next post.