It's been a pretty low key past couple of weeks. The rain has stayed longer than I would like which has hindered some exploring. I've also realized that of everything I bought before I left, the one thing I forgot to pickup was a Sydney/Australia travel guide. I need to go pick one of them up this week to help me find places to explore. The weather did ease up this weekend at times. So I took advantage of it and went out to Bondi to meet up with some friends for lunch and spend the day near the beach. They had the Winter Fest going on and actually setup an ice skating ring just above the beach. If you look to the far left of the picture, you can kind of see people skating (by the white globes).
I also spent some the afternoon walking around the area and stopped to watch a group of surf schoolers. While the water is cold this time of year, maybe low 60s, watching the class is really making me want to start taking lessons. I was initially shooting for a weekend surf school in September, but now I'm thinking I might have to brave the cold to take a few lessons first. I figure I should get some training in before summer when the beach is packed with 30,000 people.
I'm hoping to get to the zoo next weekend to start to see some of the crazy poisonous animals this country has just crawling around, from a distance of course. I'll make sure to bring the camera for that trip. One one local animals that are everywhere are Flying Foxes. I didn't want to grab a picture from the internet and ruin the surprise of what these things look like for everyone before I can get picture myself. They're pretty creepy, rather large and just about everywhere. Search if you want, but I'll try to get a picture of these creatures. Let's just say I haven't been keeping my window wide open in the event one of these things gets close.
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