Sydney, Northern Beaches. NSW

As we arrived in Sydney's Northern Beaches, the sun finally shone and the shorts finally came back out of the rucksack. Unfortunately the wind was a little cool but that wasn't going to put me off. We decided on going straight to the beach for a dip in the sea until we saw how savage the waves were, a good few metres highs and just smashing everything in its way, so we decided against it.
Just a few KM's north of Narrabeen (where we were camping) was a place called Palm Beach, the setting of Home and Away's Summer Bay and the Surf Club, as we arrived the place was instantly recognisable just from the fence itself having seen on tv over 18 odd years many a walk taken along this point. Sonya was in her element running up and down the beach walk. Only problem was it destoyed the make belief as theres no diner next door as you are led to believe and when ever you see a car pick someone up outside the surf club and head towards the so called Yabbi Creek, they are in fact driving straight into a car park. The beach itself was stunning and the area a very posh place. We then headed down to Manly which was so different to the last time we were there 6 months ago, a more deserted place both in the town centre and on the beach for obvious reasons like its winter.
The following day we attempted to head to the olympic park (Telstra Stadium) home of the 2000 Olympics and more importantly the venue of England World Cup win in 2003, unfortunately we got lost on the way and ended up in Sydneys city centre, not a pleasent place to be when driving, to make matters worse the car started playing up, lacking power and kept trying to cut out and i was just driving round in circles getting very pissed off. We somehow managed to get back to the campsite and spent the rest ofthe day in a foul mood and hoping the car wasn't going to cost a fortune to repair.
Next day we dropped the car at the garage and headed into Sydney city centre by bus and for the 1st time going over the harbour bridge. Sydney was still the same, just a little quieter, again because it is off-peak season. We just had a walk around, collected our mail and chilled out. Got our car back the same evening and thankfully it was only the HT leads that needed replacing so didn't cost too much.
As we left Sydney and headed north we stopped off for a walk around the Olympic park ,having made it tis time, An awesome venue and so big you really needed a bike to get around the place, we will be back in August so will have a proper look and tour then.

Lee