Breakfast at home

On your way back home yesterday we looked for a bakery. Found this one a block away. Picked up breakfast from Fika this morning. Also gives us a chance to do laundry for the second 🥈 time....
Relaxing, checking out Manly beach

After walking ~13 miles yesterday, we decided to take it easy today
Breakfast and lunch in the room. Walked in the area. Craft fair/ farmers market on the promenade, lots of activity on the beach asЧитать далее
Rice&Nori Manly-ate takeout

Picked up takeout as we needed to pack up again. Moving to Darling Harbor, downtown Sydney in the morning
Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre-#4

Bucket list swim today
Adina Apartment Hotel Darling Harbour

Move from Manly to downtown Sydney, 2 nights at the Adina
Casa Ristorante Italiano

Nice Italian dinner on Darling Harbor wharf
Blue Mountain tour, 1st stop-bathrooms

Glenbrook
Blue Mountain tour, second stop

Cahill's Lookout
Scenic World #1

Wasn't really sure what scenic world was going in, but we were overwhelmed with the beauty of the area
Feeding wild cockatiels

Maple Park
Katoomba falls

After we fed the cockatiels, we walked down to the bottom of Katoomba falls
Lunch

The Returned & Services League of Australia (RSL Australia). According to a VFW or an American legion. No food pictures. I had fish and chips and Audrey had chicken. Schnitzel
Scenic World #2

We came back to scenic world after lunch to ride the cable car again. This time the clouds had broken and we got to see the valley and the three sisters
Sydney Zoo

Short tour to begin and our tour guide played a didgerdoo. The didgeridoo is an end-blown wind instrument, usually of wooden construction, of the Aboriginal people of northern Australia.
SYD-MEL. Virgin Australia flight 824

Leaving Sydney for Melbourne
Philip Island, Airbnb

Nice place. It's an elevated room above the garage and we can see the ocean in the bay from two sides of it. It's called The Beach House
Pino's Trattoria

Early dinner before going to see the Fairy penguins. Nice Italian place. It was very busy. Food came out fast. We may return someday
Penguin Parade Visitor Centre

The reason we came to Philip Island was to see the fairy penguin parade. We visited here back in 1985 and we are so happy to be back. We booked the ultimate tour and it was worth it
Penguin ultimate tour

The ultimate adventure tour was absolutely fantastic. There were nine of us. We had a tour guide and went to a beach with no one besides our group there. Graham was our tour guide. His background isЧитать далее
Fairy penguins parade

No one is allowed to take pictures after sundown. These pictures were provided as part of our tour
First try - pictures of the night sky

Our Google Pixel 9 allow us to take astrophotography
Bakery stop

Stopped after an hour, got some bakery items and a latte
Ferry across Port Phillip Bay

A new adventure, rather than driving back to Melbourne, we took the ferry. Our Airbnb host, they highly recommended the ferry
Great Ocean road #1

After getting off the ferry, we headed south onto the great Ocean road. It was a full day of driving and the views were absolutely amazing!
GOR Chocolaterie & Ice Creamery

Seemed like a good time to stop for ice cream.
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This is Joes favorite picture so far!
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Good idea