Bonus Time in Pittwater, Cowan Creek and the Hawkesbury River 13th to 17th August

After the water pump was fixed we decided to stay in this area for a few more days. We studied the maps and found some places we had not yet seen. Tuesday night was spent in beautiful, calm, secluded Refuge Bay close to the waterfall. The trickling sound of water falling over the rocks sent us to sleep that night.

On Wednesday we motored back to Pittwater and into Towlers Bay. This bay is full of private and club moorings and as this is not a busy time of the year no one seems to mind visitors taking up one of the moorings. Most of them are empty. It was very sheltered here from the strong westerly winds blowing outside the bay. Towlers Bay has good walking tracks into the Ku-Ring-Gai Chase National Park

We had explored all of the tracks we could find in Towlers Bay, so on Thursday we motored back into Cowan Creek and took up a National Park mooring off Hallets Beach, which is just south and on the opposite side to the Hawkesbury River entrance. What a gorgeous little beach! The wind had disappeared, the sun was out and as the afternoon wore on Peter and I decided to have our first drinks and nibbles on the beach for this trip. It has been too cold up until this point.

By Friday our larder was becoming boringly bare so the mutual decision was to go back to Brooklyn and do the laundry, have hot showers and go to Woy Woy and do the shopping. It is an easy 15 minute train trip and a short walk each end to the shops and boat. Very convenient!