Day 2 - Manly Beach and Up the Coast

Manly Beach Promenade area with shops and restaurants.

On Friday, I went with Bobby and Brittany (the other student teacher from Penn State) down to Manly Beach in the Sydney area.  The school I'll be in is off for the next two weeks as it's the end of the term, so I'll have some time to do some traveling around the area and to explore. Bobby, who works in IT had to pick up a bunch of computers and software down that way, so we helped him with that and then spent the day down there.  We ate a burger place along the beach which was pretty good, but EXPENSIVE.  Three burgers and three drinks cost about $45, but they were pretty good.  Manly beach is a very touristy but awesome place.  There are tons of shops, restaurants and people both locals and tourists. We hung out on the beach for a little bit, I stuck my feet in the water which was probably about 70 degrees or so.  The beach area reminded me a lot of San Diego based on the landscape with all the cliffs and whatnot.  

Beach Area in Manly

From there we traveled up the coast along the water.  It was a very scenic and pretty cool drive.  We wanted to stop for some snacks and food along the way back, but EVERYTHING was closed because it was Good Friday which was a bit of a bummer.  After the beach and our travel we just hung out at the house and chatted about things.  I stayed up till 10:30 p.m.!

I'll try to include some of the Aussie terms I've learned in my blog posts, just to give you a small taste of whats different:

Aussie Words

Servo - Gas Station

Petrol - Unleaded Gas

Brekkie - Breakfast

Chips - French Fries