Manly -- September 23, 2007

Another exciting day in the library today. This time, it was poring over the conference reports of the Australian Teachers' Federation from 1964-1978. Yes, it was exactly as exciting as it sounds. Summary: Give us more money, give us more money, give us more money. Don't give the Catholics money! Give us more money. Weeellll....OK, you can give the Catholics money, as long as you...Give us more money. The worst of it was that the reports were all bound up in an enormous hardcover volume that weighed about ten pounds and was extremely unwieldy, especially toward the ends of the volume. And naturally, I somehow managed to strain my left forearm manipulating it during photocopying. Who knew libraries were such dangerous places?!?

Anyway, it's not so bad that I can't type. But this is just much more pleasant:
That's the view from the ferry to Manly on the way out. On the way back, just before docking up at Circular Quay, I shot this composite of bridge and Opera House:
Manly, by the way, is gorgeous. I hopped right off the ferry and went to the Manly Fish Market, where within fifteen minutes I had a packet of fish and chips and plopped myself down on the beach. It was a beautiful sunny spring day. These last two pics are from Manly; the first is of the main (oceanside) beach, and the second is on the harborside strand near the ferry docks.