South American culture at Sydney Opera House

Intending a leisurely day today we walked with Sue to Manly via the pathway along the coast passing Fairlite beach ( 30 minutes). It’s overcast and muggy and about 29 degrees. On manly beach which is on the oceanside and has huge surf, we found a few thousand fit people taking part or watching Manly Open Carnival on the beach with multiple events simultaneously.. We watched the Taplin relay event, as explained by another observer who had come from Victoria whose family member was doing the 3 event taplin. ( swimming, surf ski canoe, surf board). I googled Taplin and it said the Taplin is the most prestigious and fiercely contested in competitive surf life saving competitions. We also observed beach flag racing practiced by surf life savers, in which the objective is to test reflexes and agility on beach sand. The men started lying down on their fronts then leapt up and ran in the direction of their feet towards the target flag. Also beach volleyball and beach tennis activities were all going on.
We walked to freshwater beach then onto south curl curl beach. Then back to freshwater beach along a wooden walkway with amazing layered huge rock formations with waves crashing, sea spray just reaching us at times.
We swam at Freshwater between the red/yellow flags, huge waves ripping down my bikini bottoms as I jumped the waves! Adrian decided to swim too, abandoning his his long trousers!
We walked to a cafe where I ate a spinach and ricotta sausage roll, an Eccles and a cuppa tea! We observed pedestrians going by barefoot on the pavement! We took the bus back to manly, then bus 144 back to bangowlah. Walking today was 3.8 miles.
Sue and I shared two pots of Earl grey, and then we got ready for going out to Sydney Opera House. We made a snack of sourdough toast with avacado and chilli flake sprinkles & walnuts.
The evening was spent at Sydney opera house for Argentinaian culture. where we watched an amazing performance of a troupe of fit Argentinians dancing, and drumming and flinging balls around on the ends of strings in an extremely energetic way. There were 13 of them moving in unison and not an arm or a leg was out of place, even when they increased their pace. The dance involved intricate leg movements, foot stomping with and without shoes, tapping, scraping and some flamboyant posturing. Some of it was just tight black trousers and sting looking bare upper bodies. The audience was very appreciative standing up and cheering a lot towards the end of their almost 1.5 hours. We came out to see Sydney in the dark, cruise ship lit up saying Ahoy Sidney, and there was a buzzy atmosphere with many people out and about enjoying the balmy weather eating and drinking or just hanging out. We enjoyed an Italian gelato ( I shared a two blob one with Adrian) it was delicious!