Bondi and Manly Beaches!
Posted by Sarah O'Neill , Sunday, 13 March 2011 18:02
On Thursday we headed to Manly beach on the ferry. It was a lovely sunny
day and the views of Harbour Bridge and the Opera House were spectacular from the Ferry. The journey took about 40 minutes, and then we were a short walk from the beautiful Manly beach. Bondi is probably the most famous of the two, but most people prefer Manly, and I am definately one of them! It was very busy, but we managed to find a spot and dumped our stuff before all heading into the sea. I don't usually go in the sea, but it wasn't that cold at all, especially once I got in! It was really good fun, but the waves were absolutely huge and got a bit scary in the end! Ami and I got out first and relaxed on the beach. We all had fish and chips on the beach for lunch which was a lovely treat! After some relaxing and sun bathing the boys went back in the sea while Ami and I enjoyed the sunshine!
Ben and I had arranged to neet up with Ben's Aussie friend Nathan who worked at Derriford for a while and came to our wedding. We had arranged to meet him at Bondi after he'd finished work 
at 5pm, so had to leave about 3.30 to catch the Ferry back to Circular Quay to then get the bus to Bondi. We had a while on the beach waiting for him, and enjoyed watching the huge waves and lots of surfers. I definately liked Manly better, but Bondi was a fun place to see! We met Nathan and headed to the RSL club for a drink. After lots of catching up we went to the little Mexican place Nathan knew for some tea, which Nathan shouted for us which was so nice of him! We all ordered burritos to take away, which took a long time to come as it was so busy, but were worth the wait! Delicious! We sat on the wall at the edge of the beach to eat our dinner. Nathan offered us a lift to the train station so we didn't have to get the bus, and gave us a bot of a tour of Sydney as he drove! We got back rather late and headed straight to bed!
about 2 hours through little Blue Mountain villages, visiting the Information Centre on the way. We had thought about doing a guided bus tour, but the guy in the info centre was so helpful and told us not to bother, and to drive it ourselves, and told us the bits to see and gave us all the info. We drove to all the lookouts, seeing gorgeous waterfalls and amazing views. We found a supermarke
t and got a picnic which we ate in a lovely park. We went to see the three sisters, a rock formation, which has an Aboriginal story behind it. A baddy was coming to the village, and the witchdoctor man turned the Chief's 3 daughters to stone to protect them, but was killed before he could return them to normal. While we were at the 3 sisters lookout we saw a cable car going down into the gorge below, so went to find out about it. There were 2 cable cars, one up and 
down, and one glass bottomed one across the gorge, and also a steep train up and down. We were divided about which to do, Ami and Ben wanted to do the train down and the cable car up, but Pete and I wanted the opposite, so we tossed a coin for it, and 
the train down won! I am so glad it did, it was brilliant! When we got it and saw how steep it was we had a bit of a shock!!! It was so steep we couldn't see where it went! It was brilliant! I don't think I even looked at the views, I was just concentrating on where it was going and looking at the track!!! This picture was taken at the bottom, can you see how slanted the seats are, you are practically lying down! We did the boardwalk at the bottom, and then caught the cable car back up, which was a much more sedate ride! We had a long drive back towards Sydney in the Friday evening traffic, but had a great evening with a BBQ and cards and wine until 2am! 
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