A Lazy Day

Monday March 3rd

Lazy as I'm beginning to get a bit predictable in the titles.

Anyway it was a lazy day. After the lack of sleep last night, and with this being the first time in ages not in a hotel, and with no real deadline for getting up, I ended up sleeping until after 11 am, a straight 11 hours, which I haven't done for many years.

Once up I availed of the local washing facilities, and then headed back to Coogee Bay for brunch. I bought breakfast for the rest of the week, although the Weetabix isn't exactly the same as the ones at home, its the closest to a normal breakfast I've had for a while.

After that I decided to do the coastal walk from Coogee to Bondi Beach. This walks along a large part of the Eastern Suburbs coastline in Sydney and is particularly spectacular with rocky headlands separating nice coves with beaches ranging from the small, to the large. Bondi is the largest, and most commercialised, so inevitable it proves to be a bit of a disappointment with the nicer beaches in the middle coming first. But the whole walk is particularly cool, especially at there were some large waves crashing on the rocks that day.

It seemed like a long walk, there was a lot of climbing up and down steps, but I think it was my photo taking that was delaying me. One thing the guide books do not tell you about Sydney, is how hilly it is.

Also I did have to step out of the way of a lot of joggers running past me. Already I've noticed that there are way more people here into jogging, walking, cycling, or anything to keep them fit than there is at home. Presumably this explains why a lot of the girls are particularly fit looking.

One thing I noted about Bondi was that there were a lot of heavily tanned blokes sleeping on the beach. It was only then I remembered that the Mardi Gras thing had only ended on Saturday so there were a lot of tired 'lads' around. I didn't really like Bondi, so I headed back, and did get back a lot quicker than I got there, presumably because there were fewer photos this time.

A particular highlight of the walk is that you walk through an old cemetary for part of the way. Although it was mostly closed for repair, on the way back I did find an old Costello grave from 1914.

That evening I met a couple of Janets friends for dinner in a nearby pub. And that was my lazy day (lazy, in that I felt I did nothing, except walk about 12 km)