Sydney Northern Beaches

In my ultimate search to find a place to live close to the beach and after being dissapointed by the beaches on the southern side, we did two expeditions to the north. In order to reach the north, we had to take a boat. A boat to Manly.

Boats.

The boat rides happen every quarter of an hour and like the rest of the public transport system in Sydney, they are comparetively cheap. I mean, it costs significantly less to take the boat for half an hour to reach the other side of Sydney than to get from Backnang to Stuttgart. This is just wrong.

So we arrived to Manly and I right off the bat, I had the best Chicken Teriyaki ever at a small stand in the harbour building. So I am already kind of happy. As expected the names of half of the shops there are funny. It's Manly Martian Arts or Manly Hairdresser. We walk through the pedestrian zone and arrive at Manly Beach.

Manly Beach

It is wide, the water seemed good, and there is a row of trees. It's also relatively quiet. So far, so good. But we were told the real gem is Shell Beach, so we continued walking. Shell Beach which I can't write about without automatically thinking about Dark City, is at the end of the path to the south and a bit secluded. It is our favourite beach up until now. The waters are quiet and the beach is surrounded by trees.

Shelly Beach

I think we slept a little there, I went for a swim and that was it for the day. I don't need anything more. Life is good.

A couple of weeks later, I wanted to see more, so went to Manly once again, this time aiming to go to the north until we didn't want to go anymore. I made a photo with interesting light on the way.

Interesting light

When the beach ended, we walked on a bridge and then up some stairs and then ascended some more over a very small peninsula and then decided that even though the houses in the neighborhood and the place seems beautiful, it's not practical to live there without a car because it was so exhausting. Now that I think about it, I am old but what is Diana's excuse? We went down on the other side and arrived at Freshwater Beach.

Surprise! Another beach.

Lots of surfers here but pretty quiet. We decided to stop here, make a break and after that go back because it was getting dark and Diana didn't have enough sleep and was tired. We had some romantic time there, I proposed we spent some more time together, we walked back a bit and waited for a bus which comes every 15 minutes and had a 12 minute delay. Australia, fuck yeah!

Manly pedestrians.

We stopped at a pizza place that was got the award for best pizza place in Sydney from Mastercard or something and the pizza (and salad) were indeed deliziosa. We packed our things, took the boat, enjoyed the lights and went home.

Manly lights.

We were happy.