Manly Scenic Walkway

Yesterday, David and I decided to try the Manly Scenic Walkway. It allows us to walk from Manly Wharf to the Spit Bridge. Here's a map of what we were following. We started where the white dotted line meets the land. (Manly Wharf) and then headed along the coast until we found the Yellow line on the far left side, which is the Spit Bridge.


Overall, the route was supposed to be 9.5 KM and the original plan was to go there, eat lunch and then come back. But that plan soon changed about halfway into the "walk". The walk ended up being more like a hike where some parts we were climbing stairs made out of rocks or sometimes even built wooden stairs. The good thing about the hike was that there were some amazing views along the way.




The white building in this picture was a location that we were considering at one point.





Along the way, there were lots of lizards on the trail. Of course, I almost screamed everytime we saw one. I guess it didn't help that we had just gone to the dangerous australian reptiles exhibit a couple of days ago. I kept thinking a poisonous snake was going to come slithering out.


Besides the great lookout points, we were often walking in the middle of a forest.


Here was some of the "moderate" terrain that we had to go through. We forgot to take a picture of the "hard" terrain, but it was pretty much the same but steeper.


And we finally found our destination! The Spit Bridge!


We decided to bus it back to Manly since we were pretty exhausted and the whole journey took about 3 hours. Afterwards, we were beat for the day and didn't do much except relax and eat. =)

We just had Daylight Savings in Australia, but we sprung forward, so we're an extra hour ahead of everyone in the states. When you guys have your Daylight Savings, we'll be another hour ahead. That means for EST, we'll end up being 16 hours ahead and for PST, we'll be 19 hours ahead.

Australia's strange fact of the day: Elections! Within the last month, they recently decided to hold an election for Prime Minister. It's not like the US, where the elections happen every 4 years. They just suddenly decide to hold elections and the elections are usually 2 months after they declare the time for elections. Also, there's no limit on how long someone can be prime minister, so the current PM has won the last 3 elections.