Manly Beach

After being in Australia for a month, Clay and I felt like we needed to take the kids out of our small town and show them what this country is really like! Over the next few years we want to see a lot of different places around here but the first place we had to go was Sydney. We heard Manly harbor, which is close to Sydney harbor was a nice vacation spot to take the family. Clay did some searching on the Internet and he found a condo right across the street from the beach. We arrived late Saturday night so we didn't get to see much, but the next morning we were amazed at how beautiful it was! It's unlike any beach we have stayed out before. There are huge pine trees that line the beach, trees that you would expect to see in the mountains, not the beach.

Even though it's winter here the weather is in the 70's most of the time.  The water was extremely cold but that didn't stop the kids from getting in it. The boys went swimming in the ocean every day we were there! Crazy, I know!

 Savannah really enjoyed her alone time on the deck outside the condo. We were on the 6th floor of the building and we had a incredible view of the ocean. She would spend most of her time reading out there. The other kids enjoyed spending most of their time out on the beach.

I wanted to give you an idea of what the beach looked like during the day. This was Sunday, so it was more busy than the other days we were there. As you can see Dave, mostly families here, not a gay beach!



 Just some more views from our balcony!



I didn't realize Clay had even taken this picture of Luke. Luke is our country boy, he gets up with the sun.  He has learned to keep himself entertained until the rest of us our awake.  He usually makes himself a bowl of cereal and watches TV, but being here, even Luke couldn't resist the views from our room. He would sit outside and play on the Ipad, until we were up!

 On one of their walks, Clay and the boys found these glasses on the ground, so they thought it would be funny to take a picture of them in Manly, not being so manly!