Bongbong's Adventures in Oz: newcastle harbour

Me at Newcastle's harbour

After my 2 weeks in Melbourne it was time to fly back. I had a flight booked for Newcastle and Shane was going to pick me up from Newcastle airport, stay the night there and then drive back to Old Bar the next day. But... I missed my flight, due to a bad estimated time of arrival to the airport, and it was the last flight to Newcastle, so after much drama over what to do... calling around to Matt and Sosan, and Shane. It was a pretty hectic hour and half of figuring out what to do.. stay another night in Melbourne and wait for the flight the next day and loose out on the hotel booking for the night in Newcastle? or pay the change fee charge, board the Sydney plane, and then drive all the way back to Newcastle for the night? Then it was decided that I take the next flight out to Sydney and Shane would make the extra 2 hour drive to pick me up from there. Poor Shane had to do so much driving that night! (Thanks babe for doing that).

Anyways, so it all worked out, with a bit of effort. Got to our hotel by 1 am or something like that.. got some rest and got up the next day to go to his nephew, Lukas' first birthday at Richely Park at Blackbutt Reserve.

Black swans at the park

After Lukas' birthday party, we went to have some lunch in town. We had Vietnamese at Viet King which was decent. Looking back, we should have went to have some pub food by the water though because it was such a nice day out. After lunch, we headed down to the harbour to show me around. Had a nice cold beer from The Brewery by the breakwall and enjoyed some live music coming from the busy wharf. What a great way to spend a sunny, Sunday arvo (afternoon). Then as the sun was going down, we decided to make our way back to Old Bar.