Bantry Bay and the Burnt St Cafe

Wednesday 21 April

Getting boring this weather and some exercise is called for as there is little chance of getting the 10,000 steps up on the deck of a 51 foot catamaran, even though it is three levels high. Flat seas, bright blue skies and mid 20’s again. We forego breakfast and prepare the dinghy to take us to the old wharf where we tie up avoiding the multitude of oysters encrusted on the piers and rocks. Flashy reckons they’d be Sydney Rock. Groan.

A 25 minute walk up the hill on the ‘Timber Cutters Track’ brings us out on a main road beside the Seaforth Oval and just across the road in Burnt Street there is a coffee shop and it’s open. Really good coffee and a couple of ham and cheese toasties and we are off down the mountain to our very secluded reach in Middle Harbour. The ladies have ordered focaccia, cheese and such, so Flashy mixes up some dough and puts it in the sunshine on the lower aft deck.

Our late lunch was complemented with an Orange Chardonnay and a French red and much discussion on what you would call the meal between lunch and dinner.

After a relaxing afternoon of sun bathing, fishing (Lady P) and a cruise around on the dinghy for Flashy, we arrived at GnT time.

Dinner was Peking duck and wok tossed vegetables with appropriate wines left over from that meal between lunch and dinner. Another round of Five Crowns and that made it a three all tournament for the trip.