During last evening Dave and Toni have organised our sightseeing itinery for the next 3 days, again it’s a very tall order but they have come up with a great plan. Today its beached and ferries but first that all important phone call to the van doctor. His opinion is that some rubbish in the fuel is causing a blockage, next time out Glad is in for a high impact engine work out before being reset to see if this will cure her, that will have to wait till Thursday.
It is the most perfect day today, Dave (now it’s getting confusing will the Dave’s!) drives us to Palm beach, their local beach in his open top sports car. This is great fun especially for us girls in the back with hair blowing in the wind. The beach and sea are absolutely perfect today so we start with a swim, the water is beautifully warm, and the waves are breaking just right. The setting of the bay couldn’t be better, gorgeous houses set in trees all-round the most perfect bay edged in golden sand. The drive afterwards back along the peninsula ogling the huge and opulent homes of the rich and famous is the stuff dreams are made of, an open top car, friends and a perfect blue skied sunny day.
Our lunch stop is at a Bavarian bar by the Manley ferry, more beautiful views of the bay before we board the ferry. Now the full size of Sydney harbour begins to reveal itself, inlet after inlet snake their way deep into the city while the harbour continues to expand and grow ever busier with ferry and boat traffic as well as sea planes. All the while the density of the buildings is increasing as we approach the Opera House and Sydney Harbour bridge, such iconic images of Sydney. There’s only just time for a lap of the Opera house before we catch the ferry back to Manley. A brisk walk to Shelly beach watching surf lessons, paddle boarders and swimmers ends our day of beaches and ferries but a family meal with Dave, Toni, Matt and Lee (and of course their gorgeous cats Yuki and Smokey) makes it absolutely perfect.
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