Saturday was a lovely sunny day and seeing as Dave had just bought a new waterproof cover for his camera, we decided our time would be best spent at the beach testing it out. Shelly Beach in Manly is a good snorkeling spot and, although I'm not massively keen on being in the sea myself, Dave had endured a morning of food shopping so I thought I should probably give it a try! We walked to Circular Quay to catch the ferry over to Manly - it was SO busy and by the time we had paid for our tickets, we'd missed the ferry we had intended to catch. The next ferry was in half an hour so we decided to sit down in a cafe and get a drink and some scones to share...they took so long though that we were in danger of missing the next ferry...so we just got up and left, putting a whole new meaning to dine and dash!Arriving in Manly we went to a cute little cafe called Bench for some lunch seeing as we'd missed out on the scones before. Highlight of this was seeing a lady get pooed on by a pigeon: she was not a happy bunny! We then walked over to Shelly Beach and set ourselves a little space on the beach. Dave headed straight into the sea whilst I caught some rays and read my book.
After his first foray into the water, I decided to go in too (only after a double caramel Magnum though). It was absolutely freezing to begin with although after a while I started thawing out and it was actually quite warm: it's always the initial shock of the water that's hard to deal with!
There weren't too many good fish: we saw a groper and a couple of funky coloured fish but nothing too exciting. Although it did beat the time we went in South France when all we saw was a sea cucumber and a starfish. I eventually went back to the beach to dry off and read my book whilst Dave stayed out and amused himself further with all the fish (he is VERY easily amused).
After his first foray into the water, I decided to go in too (only after a double caramel Magnum though). It was absolutely freezing to begin with although after a while I started thawing out and it was actually quite warm: it's always the initial shock of the water that's hard to deal with!
There weren't too many good fish: we saw a groper and a couple of funky coloured fish but nothing too exciting. Although it did beat the time we went in South France when all we saw was a sea cucumber and a starfish. I eventually went back to the beach to dry off and read my book whilst Dave stayed out and amused himself further with all the fish (he is VERY easily amused).
A surprisingly fun way to spend the afternoon and Dave got some good pictures too - I think he's very happy with his new purchase! On the left is one of the better pictures - a groper and some other little black and white fishies.
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