Manly

On Saturday we again went down to the harbor and took a ferry over to Manly to watch and photograph some surfing. Manly's slogan is "Seven Miles from Sydney, a Thousand Miles from Care..." It wasn't a great day for swells but the beach was nice to walk on and the 30 min boat ride over to Manly was nice for site seeing. It's cool how the inner waters just open up into the dark blue waters of the Pacific and you get a feel for how important these harbors once were and still are for sustaining life to a big city.
We walked along the beach and I shot some pics of a few surfers. The most talented was a young girl who was doing headstands on her board making surfing look all too easy. My surfing attempt would have to wait a day as we planned on going out with a group for a surf school the next day.
We got some gellato and listened briefly to some jazz band playing on the boardwalk. Back on the ferry and the ride over to Dock #3 in the Sydney Harbor. We got back to our hotel to change for the evening. We were going to the Opera House to see a production of Shakespeare's Measure For Measure. We sat down at a nice restaurant along the wharf and ordered our dinner. After waiting for 40 minutes and the play time quickly approaching we cancelled our food and made out way to the Opera House. A hungry stomach didn't ruin the evening though, the play was hilarious and the nearly two and a half hours went by quickly. Walking back to the room my body succumbed to the lack of sustenance. Feeling extremely exhausted and running low on fuel we found a Hungry Jack's which is the Aussie's version of Burger King. The logos are all the same just the name is different. The fast food restaurants there actually have decent food. They still have the same bad for you burgers and fries but they offer lots of other alternatives. We scarfed some food and were done for the night. Surf camp tomorrow! I needed some rest to prepare.