Blogs from Manly, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 4

Getting ready to head to the airport to fly to New Zealand. Had a great day yesterday, ran along the Sydney Harbour (hot/humid - but beautiful scenary), walked Botanical Gardens, then took the Sydney Opera House Tour - have some great pictures of that, maybe get to post later :). Then headed out on the ferry to Manly Beach, hung out on the beach and then had dinner and drinks at a restaurant outside by the beach. Long day - but very fun. If I am lucky enough to get internet in New Zealand, will post some pictures. Good day Mate!... read more

Heute ging es zum Manly Beach mit der Fähre. Sydney hat viele Strände, die man nutzen kann. In Manly soll der beste sein. Leider war das Wetter heute in Sydney echt bescheiden. Keine Sonne, sehr windig und mit 22 Grad auch kalt. Der Strand ist größer als der in Bondi. Leider war es wirklich kalt, so daß ich meinen Aufenthalt kurz gehalten hab. In der Nähe gab es einen Wanderweg der durch einen kleinen Wald geführt hat. Dort konnte man verschiedene Pflanzen sehen. Das interessante an dem Weg war jedoch die Tatsache, das über diesem überall Spinnennetze hingen und die Spinnen ungefähr Faustgroß waren. Für Spinnenphobiker wäre dort wohl Endstation gewesen. Auf dem Rückweg habe ich auch Fotos von Echsen, den Sea Dragons gemacht. Diese sind ungefähr 50 cm lang. Morgen geht es weiter nach Cairns ... read more

23 January 2011 I am becoming extrememly fond of being awoken by the sun's rays and this morning was no exception. The by product of this fondness is that we are also awoken daily before 8am and, remarkably, I really don't mind. It seems that in Manly (and, I suspect, only in Manly) I have turned into a morning person. There were two important happenings in the pot for today - one important for us, and the other important for Anna. We had been invited to Katherine and Andrew's house for brunch and Anna have been invited to appear on TV. Katherine is one of the girls that I rowed with at Law School what now seems like many moons ago. She is currently living in Old Cremorne in Sydney with her husband and baby ... read more

21 January 2011 We awoke again to glorious sunshine streaming in through the open French doors next to our bed. We already had a plan for the day, the displaced idea from yesterday - namely to go to the world famous Bondi beach. We also wanted to try another of the ferry services to/from Watson’s bay and our first decision of the day was which order to do our visiting. We headed out onto the Manly ferry and headed into Circular Quay. En route passing a huge empty tanker of some kind that dwarfed our ferry, and the ferries aren’t that small. We got to Circular Quay and our timing meant it far more sensible to come home via the other ferry as opposed to head that way now, with this in mind we got ... read more

17 January 2011 Our last morning in Woolongong had arrived, we surfaced early enough to say our goodbyes to our very generous hosts, but not so early as to take Lydia up on her very kind offer of dropping us to the train station at the same time as she was dropping her dad (7:15 is a bit too much for us). We put our stuff together in our packs and took our stroll to the bus stop for the first part of the journey, in glorious sunshine. Moving days are however the one type of day when you actually hope for a bit of cloud so you don't start sweating the minute you don your pack. This was not to be and the morning showers were deemed irrelevant about 5 minutes after stepping out ... read more