Wednesday 16th March - Sydney Australia

So today we decided to go visit 'Manly beach' We were told it was a lot nicer than Bondi Beach and we were running out of things to see and do in Sydney so thought hey why not. You have to get a ferry to get there, Well I'm not sure if thats the only way of getting there, but thats how we got there.. It was clear skys as we arrived and all was looking good. We had a look around some surf shops and by the time we left the shops it was overcast.... great. we got to the beach and Tom bet Lewis a dollar that he couldn't swim out past the furthest away breaking wave.. Lewis accepted this challenge and I'm pretty sure Tom bet this because he wanted Lewis to get swept out to sea and rescued by a coastguard.. Annoyingly for Tom, he made it back alive and with a smerk on his face and an outstreched palm waiting for a dollar.
    We managed to get to the last ferry back just in time! I did like Manly beach but it was overcast the whole time we were there which means that Bondi won the battle of the beaches for me. We got back to Base hostel and had dinner. We then went back to our room and met up with the girls I was talking to the previous night. We decided to have a few drinks in our hostel room before going out to the bars and clubs of Sydney.. One slight problem.. the three of us didn't have any drink and we thought it would be rude to share the remainder of the girls half bottle of southern comfort. So we decided to do a quick bottleshop run.. It took longer than expected and we had to ask for directions from a blatent drug addict which was a bit scary.. But we made it back with what would be our last box of goon (wine) We played a load of drinking games with the girls (Nicola and Megan) We then left for a bar called 'scubar' which is a well known backpacker bar by all accounts. In there we met our old friends Nick and Chloe who we had met right back at the start of our adventures in Australia in Cairns. It was soo nice to catch up with them again after 5 weeks! After the lovely catch up we said goodbye to Nick and Cloe and carried on our night with the girls we went to a few more bars and clubs and after that we all headed back to the hostel.