Steve's been chomping at the bit every time we have a beautiful Saturday to go for a hike, and this past weekend we finally got out and did what could loosely be considered a hike. We might be a little generous with that term - far from some of the Swiss hikes that made our list. But when a four year old is involved, we'll get pretty lenient with that term. The seven month old, that's the easy one, they love coming along for the ride. It's that older one that needs to be bribed and coaxed and given an occasional ride on the shoulders.
We set out to accomplish half of the Spit to Manly walk, which is just about a 10 minute drive from where we live and that's exactly what we did. Early spring temperatures in Sydney are just about right in my book, but we still knew we would be pushing our luck to do the whole 10k, so we settled for about 5k.
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| Beautiful little hidden coves |
For those of you "not from around these parts" the Spit to Manly walk is another one of those iconic Sydney walks. While the Bondi to Bronte walk we did last fall was a coastal ocean walk, this one is along the interior of the harbour. It starts along a very well-trafficked lift bridge in the area with a beautiful view of Middle Harbour, a marina full of gorgeous boats and winds its way past the quiet Clontarf Beach before opening up to a slightly larger area of the harbour and views all around Mosman and Manly and some beautiful national parks in the area.
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| Starting point on the Spit Bridge |
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| Little hiker getting a momentary lift |
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| Impressive erosion |
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| Time for the family selfie! |
The colors of the water here were stunning around every bend and we passed the time with the little hikers by counting stairs, going lizard hunting (we saw at least 7 or 8 of good size), and watching Emma and Steve do their impression of the running lizard. I haven't decided whether I wish more that we had captured the lizard running on camera or Steve's impression of it running.
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| We saw several of these guys up close sunning themselves |
Hopefully we'll be back soon to finish the rest of the walk and I'm sure a bribery of ice cream at the end will become standard to these outings. But whose complaining about that?
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| View from part of Sydney Harbour National Park |
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| Some of us love milkshakes while others are happy with a bus card in the mouth too! |
Steve's been chomping at the bit every time we have a beautiful Saturday to go for a hike, and this past weekend we finally got out and did what could loosely be considered a hike. We might be a little generous with that term - far from some of the Swiss hikes that made our list. But when a four year old is involved, we'll get pretty lenient with that term. The seven month old, that's the easy one, they love coming along for the ride. It's that older one that needs to be bribed and coaxed and given an occasional ride on the shoulders.
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