Beach Day at Manly!

After Bondi's beach excursion last week, we decided to invite the gang up to Manly to come hang out on our beach. The gang ended up on the same ferry and we met up briefly in the apartment before heading down to the beach. In the morning, the sun was out and it was gorgeous, but by the afternoon some clouds had rolled in and the sun decided to hide for the rest of the afternoon.

Alex took some pictures of the group on her camera, but here are the few pictures that I took. Mine were mostly focused on the Surf Rescue team. Here they are going out in their little boat. It was very hard for them to get past the waves.


After the boat finally got out into the ocean, it was looking around for someone/something and a helicopter joined in the search.


No one ended up getting saved, but it's unclear whether or not someone was actually in the water. David and Nicole played catch for awhile before coming back to just chill. It was still fun despite the fact that there was no sun. Finally, my wimpy self decided that it was too cold and I was going to head back to the apartment. Everyone else decided to join me!


At home, we had a feast of food and drink. We had made chicken curry for the group, but we also feasted on celery/chips and hummus, salad, toast with pesto tapenade and chocolate chip cookies. It was a good afternoon of food and drink.

Now to answer some questions that were brought up in the awesome comments!

1. Which was does the toilet flush? I still have not found a toilet that actually flushes like the ones in the US. It's always a rush of water that doesn't ever swirl in the toilet.

2. What does Kangaroo taste like? I have only seen one place that has mentioned serving kangaroo, but I wasn't eating at the place at the time. It was for a kangaroo pizza.

3. Is Fosters really Australian for beer? Fosters is NOT an Aussie beer. It's actually very hard to find Fosters around here and people don't like the fact that it's called the Australian beer.

Australia's strange fact of the day: Price of Beer. For some reason, the terrible beer they serve around here is extremely expensive. Usually $13-14 for a 6 pack! It's insane how expensive the beer is here.