Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Your Golden Sun will Shine for Me
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Yesterday we went to Dee Why (which is down the road from Say What) to go and check out some of the Northern beaches. The surf breaks there were pretty good, a lot of people were out on some really rocky looking point breaks. If you wiped out, you'd get banged up pretty bad.
There are quite a bit of people out and about mid-day during the week, we're not sure of the unemployment rate in Australia, but staring at the sea seems to be a full time position for many locals.
Did an evening walk around Circular Quay, taking many more obligitory opera house photos for your viewing pleasure. Explored the Rocks district, which has undergone some serious gentrification since I was here last. I remember a pretty dumpy part of town with sleazy bars and rowdy drunks. Now its a fancy part of town with expensive restaraunts and pretentious drunks. Their slogan, as plastered on street light banner and such, is 'Rocks: Right Now', which implies that there was a problem to begin with. All that Olympic redevelopment money has made it a good place to go to take in some pricey cocktails and fantastic harbour views.
Still waiting on housing, we think we have a line on a place but have been burned before. Trying (unsuccessfully) not to get too excited.
posted by ncawthon at 7:58 PM
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