manly is on the north side of the harbour - where the land narrows down to a small bridge between the calm waters of the harbour and the waves of the tasman sea.

steamy heat but cooling water. wandered about and looked at the beach bums, wondering if how come they could all spend a friday on the beach.

set off for the blue mountains and spent the evening in a bar with boo and rob. rob consumed industrial quantities of red wine. i could only look on in amazement.