Cockatoo Island is the largest island in Sydney Harbour. Located at the junction of the Parramatta and Lane Cove rivers, Cockatoo Island is a former imperial prison, industrial school, reformatory and gaol. It is also the site of one of Australia's biggest shipyards during the twentieth century. The first of its two dry docks was built by convicts and was completed in 1857. The island's maritime industrial activity ceased in 1992.
This weekend the Reids and another 3 familes camped on Cockatoo Island.
It was excellent - we arrived on Saturday morning, found our tent (it is already erected when you arrive) and started exploring. There was lots of tunnels for the kids to explore and old ruin buildings for the grown up's to learn about. We had a BBQ dinner, played cards in the rain and eventually got to bed around 10:30pm.
At approx. 2:30am little Olivia woke up and announced "I'm going to vomit". Which she did. All over her sleeping bag. And her sleeping mat. Inside the tent. My attempts to pretend I was still asleep ended when that lovelly smell of fresh vomit was just too over powering and I had to help Emma clean up.
Other than that, a great place to camp and great fun for all.
The other snap above is Jame's futsal team - five a side football for those not familiar with futsal. Season just ended -and James was top scorer.
My season is about to start - we had our first practise match today for the Over 35 Division 4 team. My legs hurt now and I have blisters on my toes.......oh.....and we lost 6-1. It's going to be another tough season!
Ken
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