Time In Wollongong

After my wonderful few days away with my friend, Brian picked me up and we traveled to Wollongong where we  firstly spent a few days with our younger daughter and her family and then had about 6 days with our gorgeous  grandson while his mum and dad and big sister had a few days  holiday up the coast.
Our daughter lives near the industrial  part of Wollongong, which I personally like as  Wollongong and Newcastle where we used to live were both  great steel making cities and thrived for many years on these industries.
I quite enjoy the industrial skyline, both by day and by night, where it appears to be a small city of  it's own with all it's brilliant lights .

Our daughter used to live near the beach but they moved recently  to be closer to work, schools, the city and to save a fortune on their mortgage, they  have settled in well to their new neighborhood.
While they were away, Brian helped them complete a few jobs that  needed to be done, the first pressure cleaning off the deck,

And he also removed a couple of stumps  from the front garden,

And oversaw a section of the side  fence that had to be replaced while we were there.

We had several shopping expeditions,

A few lunches out, Salmon being one of my very favourite eat out dishes.

Bought Josie the black lab a few juicy treats,

She chewed on this bone for several days.
I had a bad trip over a small  concrete  raised ledge and ended up with a nasty graze on my knee.

Every morning we were visited by some of these  beautiful sulfur crested cockatoos.

One day when our grandson was in day care we  headed into town and had a lovely lunch  and then headed out to the lighthouse area to have a wander around.
The views were just stunning,

These  view show how  the Wollongong panorama stretches from the industrial side  on the left up to the modern commercial touristy  area around the harbour.

The light house and the  guns  stand out  and once gave great  protection to Wollongong itself and the shipping vessels that sailed these waters. .

We had a lovely day wandering around, Wollongong truly is a beautiful city  and  is surrounded by  such glorious natural beauty as well.
After  our daughter's return we headed home, and on the way called into Sydney to pick up this jumping castle/water slide as a Christmas gift to our older daughter's family.

I reckon they will all have  ever so much  fun when they all get together  over the holidays.
While we were away we had been contacted  by our neighbours to let us know that there had been a storm and had we  received  a reasonable amount of rain in a considerably short time.
We were surprised to see  that a torrent of water had passed  over our newish back verandah and had made a mess.

We got in and cleaned it all up, there was mud and silt everywhere, I removed about 3 buckets  full  after I swept it all up. It had washed everywhere.
We had a  good break away, but  there is much to do now that we are home, life just not stand still unfortunately while  we are away, and the jobs pile up.
Take care until we meet again,
Cheers,
Jane and Brian.