Manly Final

Our last full day in Manly... or Australia for that matter. Time flies when you're on vacation!!

Kelly was up early, made herself a coffee then slipped out to the porch to read her book and get caught up on FB with her cruising pals.  Many cruisers are counting down the minutes until departure as the excitement starts to grow. Several will actually fly in on the day of departure. (Being in the aviation industry, unless I can drive there in a day, I would never personally take that risk... but that's just me:-)

Once I dragged my butt out of bed, we headed out for a morning walk along the beach. With hot coffee's in hand, we watched the surfers and a huge beach volleyball tournament that was underway. We also grabbed another geocache that had eluded us yesterday due to crowds, then stopped for breakfast overlooking the beach.  Although we baked in the sun it was great!

Breakfast views of Manly Beach.

We headed back to our little flat and sorted out clothes. We (the royal "We" that is) collected laundry and headed around the corner to the Wash 239 Laundromat.  We could throw a rock and hit it so good planning on Kelly's part!!

One thing that struck me as odd was the street layout where our Airbnb was. Clearly the street was widened but I suspect the trees where somehow grandfathered and subsequently included in the streetscape.

Trees have the right of way!

Kelly did some practicing as she has a new tune to learn. Sounded good to me! It also entertained the local birds that visited us on our wee porch.

Practice underway.

My view!

We headed off into the main tourist area once again. There was a local market with stalls set up just off the main pedestrian walkway that offered various items for Kelly to scrutinize.  The school grounds also had a huge market of used goods as well.  We also found a post office to send a special person a postcard :-)  After grabbing some fresh baked buns we went back home and made lunch out of the meats and cheeses we had purchased earlier. It was very good and went down easy with a glass of cold beer and some wine.

No geocache here!

With the sun still working it's magic, we swapped back over to our beach gear and walked the four minutes to the beach. Some dark clouds filled the horizon but the sun did it's job for about 45 minutes before disappearing behind the clouds.

The clouds eventually won out :-(

Retro look of a new Royal Enfield Classic 350.

We relaxed and just chilled on our porch until we had another idea... Dinner!!

We walked over to the main street and once again had a nice meal along with dessert... that we could have done without :-) We tried to walk it off but returned to our place with an extra pound attached... at least that is what it felt like!

Tomorrow we will head over to Sydney Harbor and get on the Explorer of the Seas for the next leg of our adventure.