The aptly named Manly Beach north of Sydney Harbour, is the scene of running repairs on hard-working sandals to keep them going for another hemisphere.
The local parrots are watching as they are always very wary of silverbacks, however docile they seem to you and me.
Parakeets abound too, especially in the leafy suburbs; very squawky chaps!
.....and high in the gum branches hang enormous, ginger, stinking bats, who only seem to right themselves in order to launch great globules of rich bat-poo onto the awestruck twitchers below
The Eastern Blue Groper silverised by sculptor
This is the scene at Darling Harbour, an amazing replica of Captain Cook's Endeavour...
...... with the modern Sydney skyline in the background.
On board a preserved WW2 Destroyer, Paget bellows another order down the tubes to the greasy engineers.......
....who obediently load another depth-charge into tube #3
Sydney really is defined by its harbourside lifestyle: we loved it, flitting from one ferry landing to the next and rarely disappointed by our discoveries.
You lucky things!! I am questioning why Mum let you walk around with those shoes on! I guess at least you wouldn't be pick pocketed!!
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