Browns Down Under!

Long Reef Beach with the Forbes

On Sat. (Feb. 11), after having a very pleasant lunch with the Forbes, Greg, Ann and Owen, took us to Long Reef beach, north of Sydney. As you can see in the pictures, very beautiful blue sky and water. The waves at low tide were very powerful and while the Forbes are used to body surfing in such conditions, Tom and I were quite physically exhausted after being bowled over by the waves. Looking north up the coast, there is a golf course on the edge of the beach (that patch of green on the upper left). We hiked up to the point you can see in the distance. The red tent is the rescue squad shelter. We actually got to see the rescue squad in action, they had to take the motor boat out to rescue a couple of kids caught in the under tow. successful rescue.


This is looking back from the point. There were many surfers out in the water, I quess this in one of the places for fun surfing. Greg and Anne's older son's both surf, but we didn't get to see them in action. This day they went to a different beach to try spear fishing.


rt. Tom's back (blue shirt) center: Ann Forbes left: Greg Forbes (Greg was a professor at the U of R)


Ann on the left, Owen in center digging in the sand, and Greg in hat and purple towel.

posted by Thomas G Brown @ 3:15 PM