For breakfast: pancakes. They come with one strawberry, dusted in icing sugar, and accompanied by both maple syrup and King Island cream. They are awesome.
Breakfast ended late for some of our number , and that, plus being interrupted by The Amazing Race people, led to us being 30 minutes late meeting Daryl. We did, however, get to Manly on the ferry, meet up with Daryl, and set off on our beach/bush discovery trek.
Daryl took us to a former military installation that has been turned back over to the people as a national park. It has some great places to take photos and access to beaches. He took us to Shelly Beach, Manly beach, and Palm Beach among others. The walk from Shelly to Manly beaches was lined with all sorts of interesting things like salt water pools carved from rock (Daryl tells us that they are refreshed every day when the tide comes in to wash them out), and little sculptures on the rocks along the way. We also rode the Palm Beach Ferry for a circuit and saw various places where you can camp in that bay (some accessible only by water).
After seeing some more rally nice beaches, Daryl dropped s back off at the Manly Wharf where we took the ferry back to Circular Quay. I took some interesting (to me) night shots from the deck of the ferry as we were pulling back in.
We made our way back to the UniLodge, and I finally went out to get some grocieries. I'll have to pick up a notebook tomorrow. Now to sort through the massive amounts of information Daryl gave to us.
Side note: Apparently most beaches in Australia are public and unable to be made private. You can buy a house on the beach, but the beach behind it remains for public use.
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