Coastal Sydney

Today Laurie and Margaret took me to see the open ocean! First of all, we stopped off at The Gap which gave us spectacular views of the coast and of the Heads and of Sydney! I thought this picture below was worth taking. People apparently come up to these high cliffs and commit suicide here. It's an absolutely gorgeous place, and they have these signs everywhere..which I find quite sad. But if it works, it's definitely worth it.

 But as you can see, amazing views! We then moved on into the little town of Watson's Bay, where we ate lunch at the pub! (Very yummy soup!) There were also nice views of the harbour, and there were loads of ferries coming in to town. I even saw a pelican! Apparently whose beak can hold more than it's stomach! Pretty sweet random fact!

From Watson's Bay, we then visited Bondi Beach! Vast and gorgeous beach with huge waves! I even saw real life surfers!! And even there were a few people swimming in just bathing suits- and I saw one girl in a wetsuit! I thought, wow, brave! It was pretty chilly and really windy along the beach, but it was so pretty- totally worth the visit! We then have coffee and cake in the local cafe "The Bucket List" which was actually really good! Then when we went back to the car: the curbside where we had parked was quite high, and Laurie (a fantastic parallel parker) had parked quite close to the curb so it was a little hard to get in and out of the car! So he pulled out a little more, and Margaret and I climbed in...then Margaret couldn't close her door but it was stuck on the curbside!! It was really funny, seeing her trying the lift the door to get it unstuck! :P That was a fantastic wrap-up to our visit to Bondi Beach!

After Bondi, we visited Tamarama. A little place were Dad used to have a flat, and it's beach was absolutely gorgeous. A lot more rocky and narrower than Bondi, but I'd have to say, even more gorgeous. But I wouldn't go swimming there- it looked quite dangerous!

On the way home, we then visited Waverly Cemetery. It's located on the high cliffs on Bronte, beautiful place. It was opened in 1877 I believe, and it's known for it's intact Victorian and Edwardian monuments. It was absolutely gorgeous. They were very large monuments, and there were hundreds of them, and it came with a fantastic view of the ocean. We saw graves from 1914 all the way to 2006. I'm sure there were graves older than that, but that was good enough for me. Absolutely stunning and very very nice.