On a headland, sandwiched between Manly Beach and Freshwater Bay. Emma and Charlie have chosen a fantastic location for their apartment. As we sat on the balcony enjoying an early morning cup of tea we witnessed bronzed bodies making off to the beach with surf boards, returning some time later to change into work clothes and head off to the city in their BMWs. Such is life in Manly!
After a pre-breakfast swim (for Mike) we drove over to the other end of Manly Beach and had breakfast in what Emm described as the iconic Aussie beach café, overlooking the aquatic reserve at Shelley Beach. As we sat enjoying our muesli and toast scuba divers and snorkel swimmers passed us on their way to the water. After breakfast we joined them and saw for ourselves the amazing diversity of fish in this bay. By now the temperature had notched up a few more degrees into the high 20’s and the water provided welcome refreshment. Next Emma and Charlie drove us for a view of Sydney Harbour from North Head before returning to their apartment for a late lunch. Our next excursion resulted from one of Emma’s ‘off the wall’ ideas. She had rung up one of the yacht clubs located in one of the many harbour inlets and discovered that on Thursday evenings they had a race in which guests could participate – the idea was to get as many people along to taste the experience of sailing in the hope that they would catch the bug and join the club. As ‘out of towners’ we were not sure how welcome we would be and approached the exercise with some trepidation (another of Emm’s scatty ideas), but in the event it all worked out extremely well. The yachtees were only too pleased to have us as crew and although we were each on different boats we all had a great time. And we got to see Sydney Harbour from a unique viewpoint to boot! Well done Emma!
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