Monday 25 April 2011

Lake Illawarra and Port Kembla

Leaving the kittens yesterday was not easy!
Especially since they have been not good in the last couple of days, but the small problem they had seems to be solved so we decided to go for the short break at the lake.
Lake Illawarra is just a couple of kms south of Wollongong, on the coast, north of Kiama.
We've never been here before and we were excited to go back to explore new places and go back to Kiama where we had another short break 4 years ago.
We found a lovely bed & breakfast 5 minutes walk from the lake and as per plan yesterday evening we climbed onto the bridge over the lake and took a couple of photos of the sunset.
It was lovely, very nice colours, beautiful cloud formation, pelicans and other birds floating on the mirror like surface of the lake, just a few fishing boats every now and then and a lot of fishermen along the shores.
We then went over to Port Kembla since I wanted to try some long exposure shots of the smoke coming out of the chimneys. Port Kembla is indeed one of the biggest industrial park I've ever seen and it's best seen at night, when all the lights are on and the blue and the yellow flames of the ovens really comes to life against the black background of the night sky.
We wanted to proceed north to Wollongong to find a nice restaurant but in the end we decided to go back to Windang (where our accommodations is) and try out the Thai restaurant we had seen earlier.
It was definitely a good choice, since the food was excellent and not too expensive :)
Today, weather permitting, we're off to Kiama and try and take some photos of the blowhole!
Happy ANZAC day!!!!

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