Wednesday 11 June - Thursday 12 June
For Mother's day, Christopher and Tina
send me from Perth a voucher to spend
the night at the Q Station in Manly
North Head.
We booked for Wednesday night and
arrived shortly after 2pm.
We check out our room...
We had dressing gowns and slippers provided
lots of goodies
our door
our outdoor settings
to the left
to the right, 3 more rooms in our block.
Nice people staying for a couple of nights,
3 couples, all friends. They invited us to
join them but we declined.
( they were all friend on holidays together)
We went with a glass of wine and sat on the
back veranda, it had the view on the bay.
We were given a bottle of wine on check in.
our block, our room is the last one on the right
WALKING AROUND THE STATION
The building with the big chimney is the old
boiler house. It is now a first class restaurant.
somebody had fun... toilets doors
The old steam room where they put all the luggage
to be disinfected by heat.
WE VISITED SOME EXHIBITS.
this is one of the guest lounges.
they are all decorated with old stuff
an old huge kitchen range
the single beds
must have been bed for the first class passengers
not to get contaminated
the row of showers
everybody coming off the boat had to have a shower
water mixed with carbolic soap.
THE CLIFF NEAR THE WHARF IS DECORATED WITH
ENGRAVINGS
at the restaurant
the Boilerhouse
Claude meal
my meal
all very yummy and we had a rhubarb cooked in champagne
mascapone trifle...we shared
The next morning we took the car to Manly
and had breakfast at Fairies Bower beach cafe.
We had nice sunshine and ate looking at
people swimming, boy they are nuts.
After we went back to the station and visit some
more (the photos are mixed up)
We had a late booking for 12pm.
We did not see any ghost. It is
supposed to be hunted.....
It felt like we spent few days,
we packed up a lot in these 24 hours.
We had a terrific time.
On our way home we stopped at the mall to
do our weekly food shopping.
Back to reality!
