The quaint little seaside country town of Woy Woy

The more I travel, the more I get to see some of the smaller towns of Australia.  Outback is a word I didn’t really understand until I came here, and “country town” is another word. Woy Woy is a coastal town and a southern suburb of the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, located on the southern reaches of Brisbane Water north of Sydney.

Woy Woy is located in the northern half of the Woy Woy Peninsula, a densely-populated estuarine peninsula that also includes the districts of Umina Beach, Ettalong Beach and Blackwell, in addition to several small sub-districts. (Wikipedia)

Really now, before I came here I was thinking “Woy Woy”, what kinda name is that? And coming from California with the many Mexican city names as San Jose, San Carlos, Buena Vista, Chico, Del Mar, Los Gatos, La Habra, El Paso De Robles, and Rancho Santa Margarita - I have to think more about the first settlers of Australia, their native people, the Aboriginals.  Most of the city names in Australia were named by the Aboriginal people, including the town I live in: Nunawading (nun-a-wad-ing) as well as Woy Woy.

This is a cute little town, and it does remind me of Grass Valley, California.  I still do love the mountains, and the country quite a bit. Here are some picture of Woy Woy and my trip this week.  Click on each pic to enlarge.

Next this week I am on to Newcastle, Australia.

Tesla Live in Melbourne

We met up with friends Claire, Rob, and Blair to go to the Tesla show in the city (Melbourne) last weekend when I was home. The thing about Tesla is that they were big in the 80’s as a hair metal band, but here in Australia they didn’t get much airplay. 

It was suprising to see so many Australians that would pay $50 bucks a ticket, there were about 300 people crammed into the hot and sweaty HiFi Bar in Melbourne. It was standing room only to hear some of our 80’s favourites.  The best was Love Song. 

All original band members - they may be looking older but they sound just the same.  Excellent show!

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Mental Status: Had a good training day today, at a very nice hospital with a great staff.
Favourite thing this Week: This week my favourite thing was Tesla with Birdie on Friday with Rob and Claire.  We had such a great time!
Song of the Week:  Love Song by Tesla
New Book: The Quickie by James Patterson - almost done!