Socs, my friend from QIQ and Hyperion was a lovely host, along with his wife Caroline. They took us to the beach for a picnic lunch, and then Socs took us beach hopping. The next day we took a bus to the ferry (they live on the North Shore) over to walk around The Rocks, past the Opera House, through the Botanical Gardens (where we saw flying foxes \u00e2\u20ac\u201c huge bat-like things hanging by the thousands from the trees), through Potts Point, then Kings Cross, then took a two-level subway train to Bondi Beach for dinner at Sobo with my friends from hiking the volcano in New Zealand. Whew!<\/p>\n
Then Saturday, we did the Manly walk \u00e2\u20ac\u201c about 7k along the north coast of Sydney Harbor, with sweeping view of the harbor and boats, passing about 7 beaches, and stopping to swim at one, seeing two goanna (large lizards). We stopped for lunch in Manly, then found a camp store to pick up fly nets for our Outback trip. We finished the day with a delicious BBQ dinner on Socs and Caroline\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s deck.<\/p>\n
Next day we flew to Adelaide \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Socs drove us to the airport, and as we started to go through baggage check, I realized I had left my laptop in the trunk of his car! We were able to reach his cell phone, and he drove back to bring it to me; what a friend!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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