Hi Guys, we’re still living in Manly, still hiding from the paparatsi and still loving every second of it.
Many is a beach town as I mentioned before. It is a beach town because it’s next the beach…..Manly beach in fact….and said beach looks like so:
The Corso, runs directly down the centre of Manly and it’s a pedestrianised steet a bit like a smaller Grafton street.
It looks like so:
It’s full of interesting characters like this gentle busker who is a common site on the corso:
Pure Blonde, only 41.99
I’ve bee watching crocodile Dundee every week and I really feel like I’m truely finding my inner Aussie.
These are a couple pics from the balcony:
Our house is really comfy. It has high celings which is great cause I bought an 8 foot surfboard the other day. So far I haven’t seen any sharks, but they’re defo out there. A surfer in Bondi had to have his hand reatached after a 2.5 metre great pulled it off while shaking his hand.
The next day and army diver lost his leg and hand to a bull shark in the harbour. A 3 meter gret white was also caught in the harbour a couple days ago…
Scary shit this is for sure. Sharks don’t play knifey spoony and they are defo on my mind when I’m in the water. I think that I fall back on the fact that most attacks happen at dawn and dusk, when the hunt cause the water has less visibility…
Anyway, it’s a numbers game really. I’d be really lucky to ever get hit really, more chance in car crash etc….
I’m not suprised there is such danger anyway. I mean every city needs some element of danger or threat for it to be balanced. In Dublin we have knackers. Here they don’t have knackers. I’m mean like none, it’s wierd….. I’s like St Patrick was here and turned ‘em into deadly animals like snakes, sharks and spiders.
Everyone here is so fit and healthy it’s ridiculout… I haven’t hit a djembe drum in ages, but I have started jogging and surfing and stuff. I must say I feel really good for it too. It’s not even an efffort with this weather and beautifull scenery. We had a 2 hour walk along the coast this morning and we’re going snorkling at Shelly beach now. Two people have been killed while scuba diving here in the last 4 years, so I’m going to bring my luger with me 
There’s some amazing snorkling here though as it’s a National Marine Park and it’s only a 10 minutes walk….
Shelly Beach
Anyway, I’ve been playing chess against Joe and have an open invitation out to anyone who wants to challenge me Go to redhotpawn.com (not what is sounds like) and search for me.
Joe assures me no cheating !!!!!!