The really cool thing about Sydney is that one minute you can be in a busy city and a thirty minute ferry ride later you can be on a beach. The first beach we visited was Manly Beach and the ferry ride was a tour in itself. On the way to the beach we had awesome views of the harbor and even better views of the opera house.
At Manly Beach there were people playing volleyball, multiple surf schools and lots of others sunbathing. The beach was huge and around it were lots of plazas, restaurants and shopping. It made for a fun afternoon of walking around, watching sports and soaking up the sun on the sand.
Although there was a mix of locals and tourists on the ferry, it was very easy to tell who was visiting by the amount of time they stared at the opera house. But who could blame them? The Sydney opera house is stunning in design and definitely commands the skyline. We all couldn't take our eyes off of it. What I thought was interesting was that the shells on the opera house look much different up close than from far away. From a distance they appear uniform in color but up close you see that they are actually a mix of whitish, creamy and tan (or maybe they were just dirty) tiles with a subtle pattern. I couldn't stop looking at the opera house - it was so cool! And, as evidenced in this post, I couldn't stop taking pictures of it either.
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