Sydney Time Nearly Up

It's almost time to leave Sydney for Singapore.  Since returning from New Zealand most of my time here has been spent walking around the harbour and coast with a couple of guzzling interludes in the Rocks and in Woolwich.  There was a round of golf in North Turramurra where once again I showed my potential for being really bad at the game.

There was the Spit Bridge to Manly walk which is one of the best known in Sydney but there weren't many people on it when I did it.  The walk takes you around the northern shores of the harbour and ends in Manly on the coast.  There are great views all the way, lots of birds and I even saw the long tail of a blue-tongue lizard slip under a rock. 

View back to Sydney on the way to Manly

Once in Manly I refuelled at the 4 Pines where they serve pints of English style beer brewed on the premises along with top tosh (tucker, grub, food).  After that I took the Manly ferry back to Circular Quay with some great views of Sydney lit up in the dark.

The best walk I did was along the beaches from Collaroy to Manly on a superb sunny day.

Curl Curl Beach

Then there was the lorikeet photo sessions in the back garden.

Rainbow Lorikeets

Flying Lorikeet

And yesterdays fantastic walk around Barrenjoey Head near Palm Beach.

Palm Beach from Barrenjoey Head

Big thanks go to Les, Joyce, James and Helen for letting me stay here for a few weeks.