SYDNEY ROCKS
Ran from Sydney city to Manly, passing through the rocks market, running across the harbor bridge, visiting balmoral sailing club, and finally arriving at a liquor store in Manly where I bought a bunch of cider and begun to get myself right!
http://www.mappedometer.com/?maproute=239883 is the general route I took in case you're curious.
Met up with Sasha and Jacob and went down to a cliff jumping spot to meet up with the rest of the crew. Did a few flips and twists, there were two different height jumps, both fairly easy but many people were scared of the higher jump. Sasha's boyfriend Chris climbed up the railing that is supposed to protect you from falling and jumped off that, pretty wicked! He had a nice back layout as well. I was too scared for any back flips, but did a few twisting one and a halfs off the lower ledge.
Then we played on a slack line for a while, did a handstand on it with my feet resting on a tree branch above, lol. They played with putting a skateboard on it. I love that I met a good group of people already in my first week here.
We went home, showered, ate some chicken and sweet couscous, then headed to Steyne to catch a reggae band and chill out for a bit.
got my first chicken kebab and walked down to shelly beach where there was a huge fire spinning crew! All kinds of staffs, poi, pins, what have you. Some real talented spinners there, and the drum circle as well. It was quite windy, but still fairly warm out at 11pm!
It feels a lot like summer in mission beach here, but at the moment not as touristy probably because of proximity to christmas. the bars are huge and much nicer in general than pb/mission beach, and I haven't met the typical swarm of douchbag college frat guys that troll pb, people here seem much more down to earth and friendly to everyone. I wonder how far the closest college is from this beach.
I think I may get an apartment in Manly, though Newtown also seemed quite nice, and would like to be closer to the city. I'm currently writing this while at the fishburners office - http://fishburners.org/ - a coworking space I walked to from my hotel.
Can't beat free wifi and the motivation of 18 ish people all seeming like they're being very productive working on their various projects. It looks like Sydney has quite a healthy startup environment with this many people in near christmas!
Today I plan to get an admin page together for concierge-me, meet some more people and maybe try to find someone I can stay with in the next week, or at least get in tight with fishburners and just stay up 24/7 working and just nap on the grass at a nearby park now and then.
http://www.mappedometer.com/?maproute=239883 is the general route I took in case you're curious.
Met up with Sasha and Jacob and went down to a cliff jumping spot to meet up with the rest of the crew. Did a few flips and twists, there were two different height jumps, both fairly easy but many people were scared of the higher jump. Sasha's boyfriend Chris climbed up the railing that is supposed to protect you from falling and jumped off that, pretty wicked! He had a nice back layout as well. I was too scared for any back flips, but did a few twisting one and a halfs off the lower ledge.
Then we played on a slack line for a while, did a handstand on it with my feet resting on a tree branch above, lol. They played with putting a skateboard on it. I love that I met a good group of people already in my first week here.
We went home, showered, ate some chicken and sweet couscous, then headed to Steyne to catch a reggae band and chill out for a bit.
got my first chicken kebab and walked down to shelly beach where there was a huge fire spinning crew! All kinds of staffs, poi, pins, what have you. Some real talented spinners there, and the drum circle as well. It was quite windy, but still fairly warm out at 11pm!
It feels a lot like summer in mission beach here, but at the moment not as touristy probably because of proximity to christmas. the bars are huge and much nicer in general than pb/mission beach, and I haven't met the typical swarm of douchbag college frat guys that troll pb, people here seem much more down to earth and friendly to everyone. I wonder how far the closest college is from this beach.
I think I may get an apartment in Manly, though Newtown also seemed quite nice, and would like to be closer to the city. I'm currently writing this while at the fishburners office - http://fishburners.org/ - a coworking space I walked to from my hotel.
Can't beat free wifi and the motivation of 18 ish people all seeming like they're being very productive working on their various projects. It looks like Sydney has quite a healthy startup environment with this many people in near christmas!
Today I plan to get an admin page together for concierge-me, meet some more people and maybe try to find someone I can stay with in the next week, or at least get in tight with fishburners and just stay up 24/7 working and just nap on the grass at a nearby park now and then.