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With the very high winds, which have continued unabated for the past week, we've had a few nights of interrupted sleep. In fact, the gusts were so strong at times, that it sounded like a train approaching as the wind came through the trees surrounding the mooring field, waking us both out of our sleep just before we felt Paw Paw yanking wildly on the swing mooring pennant. We're in a well protected part of Middle Harbour, so we hate to think what it must have been like in the more exposed anchorages of Sydney Harbour. We also learnt today that waves in excess of 5 metres were crashing into the shorelines along the coast, with some reaching much greater heights, apparently unprecedented.

So, yesterday we decided to leave Paw Paw and head ashore for a break from it all and enjoyed a day out in Chatswood, taking the opportunity to get a few errands completed, as well as have a delicious and very healthy, peri-peri chicken lunch at Nando's restaurant, again, something we haven't had the pleasure of doing since leaving South Africa. It was well worth the wait!

Today was another day of running errands, but this time via dinghy. First stop was the Southern Cross Dive Shop just on the other side of the Spit Bridge, where we received excellent service. In fact, we can't even remember if we've ever had the experience of our dive tanks being filled while we waited. Roy also managed to purchase a wetsuit hood so he can be better equipped to dive Paw Paw's propellers and saildrives in this freezing water. En route we happened to notice Plonk Café, tucked away at the entrance to the bridge, so we stopped for a morning coffee. Definitely worth a second visit, given their very unusual breakfast menu.

From there we obtained dinghy petrol and then continued on to Cammeray Marina, where Elaine did the laundry and caught up on emails, etc and Roy took the bus to Mona Vale, where he bought a host of our South African favourites - biltong, droerwors and boerewors.

By the time we returned to Paw Paw late this afternoon, the winds had eventually died down and Roy was able to put his new barbecue to the test - corn, garlic bread, boerewors and steak, accompanied by a toss salad and washed down with an Aussie beer. It's fair to say, he is one happy man again!

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