Spit Bridge to Manly Walk

Spit Bridge to Manly Walk

Starting Point: Spit Bridge

Ending Point: Manly (duh)

Distance: 10 km

Key Attractions: Hidden Sydney beaches (e.g. Clontarf and those around North Harbour)

Directions: Catch a bus (169, 178, 179 or 180) from Carrington St, Wynyard to the far end of Spit Bridge, walk along the coast to Manly and ferry it back to Circular Quay. Easy as pie!

Duration: According to  various websites, 3 hours
Actual Duration: Try 5 hours. FIVE.
Reason why it took so long:

My adventure buddies: Milo, Nathan, Shane, Mandy & Maria

Ha! Just kidding. It took so long because we kept getting distracted by lizards, lookouts and Shane's selfie-stick of shame.

Underneath Spit Bridge

Laaiiife is like a box of chocolates. If you actually make an effort to read the back of the box, you'll know which goddamn flavour you're picking up. 

We almost didn't do this walk because of Google. Google said it would be cloudy with a high chance of thunderstorms. Google is clearly evil and out to rain on everybody's parade (pun intended). 

Clontarf Beach

 Clontarf Beach, aka home to Patrick and his relatives. Seriously. I've never seen so many starfishes in one location.

Spot the lizard

Spot the lizard again.

How many lizards did you find?

Grotto Point Lookout

Ooooh Sydney you so fine. 

Our lunch spot overlooking the water. This was a little past the halfway point of the walk. 

"Candid"

North Harbour Reserve

I liked the the whole walk had these little signposts dotted throughout which made it impossible for the directionless (such as me) to get lost. Speaking of direction, at some point during the walk, Milo brought up the idea of starting our own band called "No Direction".

Please Milo, you're preaching to the choir. I've got the no direction thing covered to a T.

North Harbour Walk. Trying to pick up our pace because it was getting dark. 

Sunset around Federation Point

We made it!

Just in time as well - it got dark really fast as we were walking towards the wharf. 

Celebrating with some sea-salt and melon milkshake ice-cream at Aqua S

Bangkok Part II

Hey I never said I was cool
(Photo credit: Samithy Heng)

I hope people don't mind that by this point, all I'm essentially doing is posting up photos of my ATYAP activities in Bangkok rather than going through to thoroughly explain our day by day activities. To be honest though, most of what I wanted to say about Thai culture and living in Thailand has already been covered in my first few posts when I was still covering the teaching in Ubon Ratchathani. All the other stuff we did in Bangkok was just an added bonus. 

Previous posts about living and volunteering in Thailand:

• Arrival in Thailand
• A Month in Thailand: Official Business
• A FanTHAIstic Adventure
• Teaching in Ubon Ratchathani Province 
• Teaching in Ubon: Part II
• Missing Thailand: Post Travel Depression
• Living in Ubon: Food Pics, Mafia, Karaoke and Movie Nights 
• Overnight stay at the International Forest Monastery 
• Zoos, Rivers and Giant Mushrooms in Ubon Ratchathani
• Bangkok

Bangkok

If my blog and I were in a relationship, we'd be one of those couples that fight one second and then end up making out shamelessly in the corner by the end of the night. Our official relationship status would be "It's Complicated" and we would go extended periods of time pretending that the other doesn't exist because I'm sorry but I don't have time to waste on you and why do you have to be so high maintenance anyway like gosh can't you see I have a shit ton of communication essays which I have to half-heartedly fudge my way through?? 

But deep down we harbour real affection for the other because we've seen each other at our worst. My blog's been there for me when I go through my quarter life crises every other week and when I reach my highest of highs. So thank you blog, for putting up with my shit throughout all these months. We make a good team.

/end embarrassing heartfelt confession to  a non-sentient webpage