20th June Sydney

Kms today 0                                                          Kms to date  930

I was free to move around Sydney while staying with Alan.  He was making his last preparations for leaving at the end of the month; new tyres on his BMW GS1200 and an oil change. We did some babysitting for Ewan at Samantha and Rob's place while they attended concert with Georgia. 

We applied and got our WA GHG Pass, but had to wait until closer to the border crossing date for the Qld and NT border passes.  We made some adjustments to our itinerary and rearranged our accommodation.

The Bondi cluster was spreading but still seemed to be contained to the Eastern Suburbs, but suddenly it was in the West.  This was a different situation because the residents living in the West were in larger households and were working multiple jobs in the community.  The NSW State government tried to use contact tracing to control the outbreak, but the Delta variant of  Covid was highly contagious and the only way to stop it was strict lockdowns - like Victoria had used.  Other States were getting nervous about the Sydney out- break, but Alan was confident the Qld border would remain open as the school holidays were about to start and 1000's of NSW people would be heading to the Gold and Sunshine Coast.  My cousin Barbara Shaw who lived in Brisbane warned us that we should get up there asap!

Alan was confident the border to Qld would stay open.