Another day in the sunshine of Manly.

Andy was up early keeping up his daily 10k running addiction.

After a walk and a coffee along Pittwater, we made our way to our favourite locals hangout, Shelly Beach to enjoy some sun bathing and swimming in the calm protected waters, followed by an early pizza lunch at the Boathouse.

Along the way to the beach we stopped off at Cabbage Tree Bay and a brief dip in the rock pool.

Today proved to be a hot affair and within a hour of reading and dozing, Andy was up and in the water cooling off with the rest of the sun worshippers.

We spent a good couple of hours of downtime at the beach in the knowledge that we won’t have many more opportunities before we return to reality back in the UK.

Returning to Manly centre, we dropped back in the rockpool and stopped to take one more photo along Marine Parade.

The afternoon was spent over at Manly Cove where we walked along Commonwealth Parade down to Delwood Beach and on to Fairlight Beach. These two small but perfectly formed sandy outcrops have the most incredible views out over the Bay, a vista that you can never get bored of.

After a day of beach and coastal walks, we stayed local and headed to The Espy for happy hour and looked out over Manly Cove Sheach.

We were joined after a short while by Caroline and we chatted over drinks about the excitement of seeing Charlie in the MJ Musical tomorrow at the Lyric Theatre.

It’s been another relaxing day in Manly and we have just three more days before we wave goodbye and our 15 month travel odyssey across Australia and Asia comes to a close. We don’t see this as the end of our adventure, just a new chapter with future travels to look forward to and most definitely a return to Australia.