Pelicans Love Fish
19 February 2022 / Words: Bill Short. Photos Bill Short and Wesley Hill
Pelicans Love Fish – 16 February 2022
The pelicans rocked
At Pelicans Rock
Illawarra came to play
Wally led the pack
Along the track
And we had a wow of a day!
Pelican Rocks Café is a favourite haunt, good food, great location and Wednesday drive down our beautiful south coast, doesn’t get any better than this!
Wally set off from Haywards Bay with a convoy of consisting of a Ford Mustang and six MX-5’s driven by members with varying experience behind him. Didn’t take long for the convoy to spread but we mostly kept together thanks to Wall’s patience.
So we didn’t take the most direct route to Greenwell Point along the Princes Highway as this would have involved a lot of road works – boring!
But we did drive through Albion Park Rail without any problems thanks to the new by-pass and along the highway to Dunmore where we exited to take some scenic roads across towards Jamberoo. We were under the speed limit when we passed a Police car sitting on the side of the road doing radar checks and had a Police motor cyclist in the middle of our convoy for a few klicks when driving across to Kiama. Cyclist bailed out and went back towards Jamberoo so there must have been an operation targeting motorists in the area.
A brave move took the convoy through the main street of Kiama where we mostly held together and back onto the highway only to exit and have a pleasant drive through Gerringong. Oh dear – we manage to get behind a caravan and had a slow trip between Gerroa and Shoalhaven Heads. An uneventful trip across to Nowra and onto the highway. Bridge and roadworks are causing traffic chaos which we manage to get through it without problems.
Pelican Rocks Café were great with very quick service and the food up to their usual standards – the reason we keep going there.
Good company, a great drive, warm but nice weather and good food – the kind of lazy life I love!
And yes, there were pelicans at Greenwell Point because at some stage, one bombed Wall’s car – he was not amused.
