2nd Dec – Manly & Surf Club!


We were certainly in denial re the rain! We had seen it so many times before in the forecast... it was going to rain but didn’t, although today it proved us wrong. We started the day cloudy and thought it might be OK for a surf, but the surf was still just a bit too big for us.  So after breakfast we hit the road south following the coast to Manly from our campsite at North Narrabeen. We popped into a number of bays along the way including Dee Wy and little Manley bay, which was picture perfect. The beaches were all closed and all the Surf Lifesavers had nothing better to do than just dig holes and play cricket. However this didn’t keep the mad surfers from going in and they where loving it, at one point we counted 30 in the water on Narrabeen beach alone.
We then headed to the Sydney Harbour National park which has an old Army Barracks, Riley talks all about our walk in his bog. We continued heading south and came to this tucked away bay called ‘Little Manly’. It was so cute, perfect conditions and a great opportunity for the boys to paddle around on the boards. It was also a great opportunity for us to observe and walk along the rocky outcrop, yes keeping the boys in sight. After an hour we noticed it was heading towards 2pm so we started to head back to Narrabeen as we had lined up the boys to join in on a nippers carnival session at the local surf club. When we arrived there was no-one there, so we checked the email details when some guy yells out from the top balcony ‘Are you here for nippers? ... It’s been cancelled’. Long story short, as you know when it’s going to rain you head straight to the bar and make some new friends, we had a lovely afternoon. It was here we found out their club is around the same size as Scarborough. It was a great way to spend the afternoon, full of great conversation and fabulous people, everyone was so friendly! In particular one of the parents we met was a single Dad doing it tough......... tell you what, life is bloody good!!!








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