Beach Blog x2

One cant visit Australia and not go to the beaches, and so yesterday (Tueaday) and today, Lillian and I went and explored the beaches of Sydney!

On Tuesday morning Lillian had to go to class, so I worked on the Monday blog, and at noon when she came back, we caught a bus to circular quay and tried to catch a ferry to Manly Pier. We missed a ferry, so had to wait half an hour for the next and in the mean time we had an ice cream!

We then caught the ferry across to Manly, and wanted to sit outisde on the ferry, but on that particular ferry, you had to sit down, so we couldnt stand outside!

We arrived at Manly Pier, and then walked down the main drag of heading towards Manly beach, a really nice pedestrian mall, to arrive at a big long beach, mostly empty, and with many tall pine trees along the back - beautiful.


Lillian and I sat down and sun tanned, but as the afternoon progressed, it got a little chilly, so we decided to go for a swim.



It was cold at first, but once in, the water is clear, clean, and so refreshing. We frolicked in the waves for a while, and then came back up the beach and dried off.


We then walked along the beach, and decided to go climbing up on the rocks to see what we could see.

We walked along, higher and higher, and thought we had reached as far as we could go, and hidden around a corner was a tunnel! Lillian was skeptic, but I convinced her to forge the way!



Here is the picture mentioned in the video.


We kept on walking and exploring, until we got to a dead end, well not really a dead end, just somewhere Lillian didnt feel "Safe" climbing!!! pffff!!



After that, it was getting late, and we slowly made our way back along the bach, and to Manly pier to catch a ferry back to Circular Quay. Along the way we got some amazing pictures as the sun was setting over the harbour bridge!




After coming ashore we started a lengthy walk to Darling Harbour, a beautiful funky harbour covered in restaurants, clubs, and bars! The reason for the trek: Bungalow 8, a restaurant that has all you can eat mussles for $18 every Tuesday!!! We arrived and had 3 bowls of mussels each, with every possible sauce available!



Afterwards we started a long walk back to Central Station, to catch a bus back to Newton!

One final view of Darling Harbour:


Then, as it was pushing 10:00, I was exhausted (jetlag) so we crashed ready for Beach Day - The Sequel!

We awoke to learn that Lillian had to do some school stuff, so she headed off to class, and I took a bus to Manly beach! I arrived at a beautiful scenic beach, mostly empty!

I suntanned, and waited to Lillian to arrive, and when she did, we had a prepacked lunch, and suntanned and swam, and rinsed and reapeated!! By then the beach had filled up, it was really busy!

Later when we had enough sun, we walked around the shops and I bought some super cool rip curl board shorts, on sale for $45 (pictures will come later), and we had an ice cream!

We then changed and went back to the beach and relaxed!


We then caught the bus/train back home, made a delicious pasta dinner with Haloumi, and now Lillian is doing a bit of work, and I'm blogging!

And that concludes the Beach Blog!! Tomorrow we plan on heading south to the Beaches near Cronulla or Kiama, not sure yet!