Goodbye Reef flip flops =(

My Reef flip flops have disappeared and this feels like big enough news to prompt an entire blog, or mini-blog anyway (I only have about 15 minutes of internet time so I gotta be quick). I'm in Sydney. I was supposed to leave today (for Melbourne) but on my second day here, I decided I liked it enough to stay a while so I changed my train to Sunday evening. I spent three nights at the Base hostel in downtown Sydney, close to the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House, which I have seen from afar and taken pictures of but still haven't actually walked over to. I'm planning to do that tomorrow. As soon as I get some breakfast (brekkie), I'm going to take a bus to the Spit Bridge (about 30 minutes by bus) and then walk 10km to Manly Beach. It's one of the famous Sydney walks (the tour guide calls it "one of the most scenic harbour walking tracks in the world") and I'm really excited about it. You pass several small beaches and coves, aboriginal sites, rock formations, and the Sydney Harbour National Park. It's supposed to take 3-4 hours to complete the walk, but I'm planning on about 5 hours because I know I'll take a million pictures -- and stop to swim a few times along the way.

I took an amazing walk on Wednesday! I took the bus to Coogee Beach, which was gorgeous, and then walked along the coast 6-7 km to Bondi Beach. I walked past lots of beaches and coves and baths and stopped to swim a few times that day. The path also goes past a beautiful old cemetery, the Waverley Cemetery. Here are some pics from that walk:

So if my walk today is half as beautiful as the one on Wednesday, I'll be stoked. I'm planning to couchsurf tonight and tomorrow night but so far I don't have a place so keep your fingers crossed that I'll find something! I'll update this blog later with more info about my visit to Sydney but I think my internet's going to time out in the next couple minutes so I have to go ... buy new flip flops. I hope everyone's having a wonderful day!! :)