Tuesday 19th December

With plans to go around Sydney later in the week, we continued to rediscover Manly with a walk to a few of the lesser known beaches, starting with Little Manly. It a lesser known and frequented beach, but we like it as its in a quaint old part of Manly with a pretty cafe overlooking the small bay.

After taking a detour via Manly Skiff Sailing Club, to see if we can book a table for later in the week, we headed to East Manly Cove beach and grabbed a coffee at Barrel One, where they do the most fantastic ‘chocolatey’ macchiatos.

Next up was Manly beach to look at ‘temperature guys drawing’ which today at 23.6 degrees were based around the Grinch.

After a little snorkelling and relaxing on the beach, we headed back on the Corso to check out the latest offering from the infamous budgey smugglers store – loving their Xmas theme!

Every so often you’re reminded that Manly is tropical and attracts some interesting wildlife.

Tonight we were invited to our Manly friends early Xmas party. This year it was held at a local restaurant where we met up with old friends and some new. It was themed around glitz, so Michelle was dressed to impress and looked amazing.

We had a fun evening eating traditional Xmas Fayre – roast turkey with all the trimmings (apart from potatoes for some reason!)

Caroline and Tracy dressed the table and we finished the evening with secret santa present giving.

We did especially well with gifts including binoculars, a coffee mug and Deacon Blue Coasters!!