Currawong; a little slice of heaven on the north shore.

Just got back from a little paradise 30min from Palm Beach called Currawong.. wow. This place has been in and out of problems for a long time now, basically, its owned by the workers union and use to be leased out to the workers on holidays.. for a while (I think its actually on-going) they wanted to develop it into a 5 star resort of some sort.. and geez, there's good reason too. I've been to a lot of places up and around australia, little coastal hide-aways like this, but nearly all of them didn't have what Currawong had, that was just total bliss and relaxation..

So, it started off on Friday morning where we all met at Paddintong for a morning coffee and breakfast. The 1h 30m drive ahead was looming, but I wasn't worried, my iphone was all charged up and loaded with 3 new albums, The XX; by The xx, Valleys of Neptune; Jimi Hendrix and Angus and Julia Stone's latest masterpiece. Its a nice drive, in fact I don't mind long drives, they're nice and relaxing.. the best being long country drives at night.. anyway. We arrived at Palm Beach shortly, ready to hop on the ferry. The weather was magical, a brilliant 27 or so degrees. The ferry ride took about 30m before we got to our final destination, Currawong Beach Cottages.

So what do you do at currawong? simple. Nothing. Now that sounds bad, but really, you don't have to worry, you have food, music, the sea.. just lying on the jetty watching the clouds go by.. could do it all day. Apart from nothing, you do have the choice of a few games and stuff, there's a Golfcourse (on my second hit it went into the lake, never to be found again), tennis courts, volleyball and pingpong, all the gear free to use.

After a bit of lying around, climatizing, we went on an adventure to the top of 'Champagne Rock'. Basically, its about a 15 min walk from the cottages through the hillside, or rather, up the hill with rocks and awesome danger. But the scabbed knees and cuts were all worth it, the view was quite something, from the top, you looked over the whole Pittwater area, all the sailing boats out doing their thing (I use to sail at Pittwater, won the national champs in 2006, go us.). Up the top we popped the Champz and took in the view and laughed the afternoon away.
It is an amazing place for photography, I took around 300 photos, as well as a panoramic series from the top of Champz rock. The water is so damn blue! it was like we were boating through the Mentanwai islands! If your one of those photogs that fancies wildlife, this is the place for you, daily, we'd see heaps of Wallabies and all different kinds of birds. Nice stuff, don't seem to mind the humans, weirdly..

So i'd defiantly go back again, for a longer time aswell. Its got to be one of the best places just to get away from it all.. like there is no excuse to just go to the shops like you can on other holidays.. there is no shops! the 'shop' comes by boat every morning at 8am! So that was my slice of bliss for the month.