Palm Beach to Newport

Our first training walk this morning kicked off at 7am on a gorgeous Sydney spring day. Kaye Khan-Panni and I met Michelle and Peter at the Coastrek official start point at the top of Palm Beach and the four of us set off on our first of many, early morning walks to get in training for our coastal walk challenge in 2011.

The first challenge was the rock pool steps – 225 as counted by Kaye who led the pack! Not much chatting went on as we huffed and puffed up to the top but after that we covered topics such as cloud computing, the young Australian of the year, old surfers, board shaping, whale spotting, ios4, Kindles, iPads and so much more.

Whale Beach looked as gorgeous as ever then passing through Avalon Beach we heard the beginnings of the surf festival as they were setting up the marquees. Bilgola was sparkling then through the final bush track emerged Newport full of surfers (well if you call 10 or so full!!) all vying for the next wave.

Michelle almost broke into a jog as our destination, Cocobar, loomed in the distance. What a pleasing sight that was and we all settled into our usual spot on the back verandah with lashing of coffees, banana bread and brioche.