Day 5: Bye-bye Bondi

...and still no suitcase...

Gaby took me on the scenic route to Canberra; the fast route can be done in about 3 hours.

• Coalcliff Rock Pool, just before Sea Cliff Bridge is a salt water swimming pool that fills up with the tides 

• It was low tide, so we hiked amongst the rocks and puddles teaming with life; and saw some cool rock features, including this crocodile that almost ate Gaby.

• Coalcliff has the friendliest public toilets ever!  The door opens, a voice says "Please lock the door".  Once locked, it tells you that you have 10 minutes.  Then jazz music starts playing.  Once done and you unlock the door, it says "Thank you".  

• Sea Cliff Bridge, we thought it might be a bridge that falls off a cliff, but no, just the highway rutting over the cliff.  Still gorgeous though; first picture is mine, 2nd is stolen from Wikipedia. 

A Quebecois man married an Australian woman,
moved to Wollongong, and this place was born.

• Wollongong, the poutine place, http://lemontrealshack.com/menu.html, was closed until 5pm on weekdays, Gaby's tried to go there several times and keeps missing them.  So no Wollongong stop for us.  But a pretty coastal town with an apparently decent Uni (Gaby's Masters perchance?) 
• We stopped for a picnic at Kiama Blowhole, a cliffside cavern where seawater shoots into the air.  It was pretty impressive, with lots of mostly Japanese tourists holding their selfie sticks at the ready for the blowhole to blow.  I didn't bother taking pictures as I knew the web would have better ones, like this one:

After Kiama, we drove away from the ocean (boo-urns).  Gaby navigated the windy mountain roads on the left side like a pro, never once sending us over the cliffs or into an oncoming car.  :-)  Gaby likes the bushfire signs as we approach Canberra, see how the scale goes from "Low-Moderate" to "Catastrophic" lol.

We arrived in Braddon, Canberra, ACT, to my home away from home for the next 2 weeks.  It's perfect.

Oh, and this: