Australia: Last full day October 17, 2009

In the previous post I mentioned that we had gotten up early to see the sunrise at Narabeen Beach. Since this was our last full day in Australia we had a full day planned. We went out for breakfast at a café called the Narrow Bean. After breakfast we went to a park in one of the beach town near by and went on a hike on a trail out to the headland outlook. Near the parking area was this beach with a couple of pelicans.

The trail took us by a public golf course. It was a really nice place for a golf course, but from what I could see you would have to be a pretty good golfer or you would have to bring a lot of golf balls.

Once we got up to the lookout point we had great views out over the ocean and back toward Manly where we would be going for the rest of the day.

We spent a while just enjoying the sun and the warm weather.

We spotted this bird that had been doing some interesting aerial acrobatics. Then we first noticed the bird there was a crow/raven that was bothering this guy’s nest and there was an interesting dog/bird fight out over the cliffs. This guy won.

We headed out on the rest of the trail and then drove on to Manly and walked down to the beach.

Karen and I had been to Manly a little over a week earlier and spent the day in the rain. This day was a lot nicer weather.

We walked up and down the promenade and stopped to watch beach volley ball for a while.

We spotted this interesting skywriting. Apparently down in Sydney there was an evangelistic conference going on.

Further on down the beach there were water rescue classes/competitions.

Later in the afternoon we walked through the shopping area of Manly and over to the wharf where the ferry to Sydney docks.

There were plenty of boats out in the bay. We were to meet up with Clarice and Jon’s friends Paul and Amber.

We had plenty of time before our dinner reservations so we decided to take a walk around the bay and out to the headland lookout. Just before the headland was a nice smaller beach.

Up on the outlook we had a nice view back toward Manly. Pictured below are Amber, Paul, Clarice and Jon.

We spotted some dolphins swimming by and spent some time watching them.

We headed back to take on last look at the beach. The high point in the middle of the picture is where we had been earlier.

As the sun was setting we got one last look out over the ocean.

This concludes the posting of our 2009 trip to Australia and New Zealand. Perhaps we will go back there someday. It remains to be seen if anything interesting happens in our life in the future, worth posting on this Blog.