Little Manly
Laura had a driving lesson as usual on Sunday morning and we're now going through her log book to 'tick off' all the things she needs to be able to do. I took her out to Terrey Hills along the 2 and 3-lane main road which is good practice for lane changing, although it was a bit hairy at times when the traffic coming up behind was quite busy and fast. Still, she did well and will need to get more used to these type of roads as most of the main roads here are like this.
In the afternoon Laura and Caroline were doing homework and Sue and I dropped Rebecca off at the movies before heading to Manly where we walked around the inner bay and around to Little Manly beach. This is an area we hadn't explored before and there was an interesting park on one of the headlands that used to be a gas works until the mid-1960's (and must have been a local eyesore!).
On Saturday there had been blue skies and it was much warmer than recently, so we'd completed the cliff path between Curl Curl and Dee Why, since we had also wanted to try getting a panoramic shot of the view over Curl Curl and Manly, with the city in the background. However, the 4 photos required had differing sky colours, but I found a nifty piece of software on the Internet that helps to merge the images together into a perfect picture (see below, and click on the image for a larger view).
In the evening we picked Laura up from work and all went to meet the Clarks in a hotel near the airport as they had returned from Queensland in the afternoon and had a early start to NZ in the morning. We had a pleasant evening hearing about their experiences up north and then drove back through the city at night (getting stuck in a traffic jam in the centre).
In the afternoon Laura and Caroline were doing homework and Sue and I dropped Rebecca off at the movies before heading to Manly where we walked around the inner bay and around to Little Manly beach. This is an area we hadn't explored before and there was an interesting park on one of the headlands that used to be a gas works until the mid-1960's (and must have been a local eyesore!).
On Saturday there had been blue skies and it was much warmer than recently, so we'd completed the cliff path between Curl Curl and Dee Why, since we had also wanted to try getting a panoramic shot of the view over Curl Curl and Manly, with the city in the background. However, the 4 photos required had differing sky colours, but I found a nifty piece of software on the Internet that helps to merge the images together into a perfect picture (see below, and click on the image for a larger view).
In the evening we picked Laura up from work and all went to meet the Clarks in a hotel near the airport as they had returned from Queensland in the afternoon and had a early start to NZ in the morning. We had a pleasant evening hearing about their experiences up north and then drove back through the city at night (getting stuck in a traffic jam in the centre).
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