Week Twelve Day Eighty-Three

Sydney Opera House.

Sydney, our final stop in Australia, and we have found a beautiful place in this hectic part. Cabbage Tree Bay and Shelly Beach!

Just a nice photo of an angle of the Opera House.

We did what everyone does when they come to Sydney...... the Opera House and Sydney bridge. Now when we see the New Year Eve's celebrations, we can say that we have been there. Sad we know!!!!!!!

Sydney Bridge.

It was great to stand there admiring such magnificent architecture, to soak up the ambiance of the whole area. After wondering around, we stopped for a coffee at one of the local outdoor coffee shops. Watching the ferries leaving Circular Quay we decided to catch one to Manly. Hope decided that she has had enough of sightseeing so opted to go home with Wendy's sister, Debbie.

Some time for ourselves, woo hoo!!!! We bought return tickets to Manly and jumped onto a ferry. It was a lovely trip out to Manly, sun shining on our faces, breeze through our hair, nice.

A walk down the corso ( pedestrian precinct) to the beach was interesting, lots of shops and restaurants. The beach was, wow, why don't we have our swimmers...... We had lunch in a lovely restaurant on the beach front. While we where there we watched a couple of women dress up like cows, black and white ones! I suppose you are wondering why? Well we where next to Ben & Jerry's, who was giving away ice-cream. I presume the cows where there because......... I am sure you can figure it out!

Cabbage Tree Bay, notice the little swimming pool.


A view across the bay to Shelly Beach.

After lunch we followed a path along the beach and that is where we came across Cabbage Tree Bay and Shelly Beach. Cabbage Tree is an aquatic reserve so there where loads of snorkelers out there, oh......where are our snorkels. We took photos of a posing frill lizard, every time you took a photo he changed position. We must have seen about six more people take photos of this lizard, he was obviously enjoying the attention.

The posing lizard.

Our time at Manly came to an end and we made our way back to Sydney. From there we caught a train to Bondi Juntion, Debbie lives not too far from there. A nice walk home ended a great day.

We have spent quite a bit of time doing normal things as well, such as shopping, cinema, banking and housework....

However a trip back to Cabbage Tree is planned for a bit more snorkeling!!!