Sydney day 2. Or I should say...day one of the heatwave. 38 degrees. Humid.
What could we do but start a day in a nicely chilled enviroment of Wildlife World.
An attraction that takes you on 5 levels of animal exhibits,ranging from nocturnal,
spiders,snakes,marsupials,.....and you get upclose&personal with them.
Very nice for the kid in me.
After that it was time to hit the beach.
Now you have 2 famous beaches in Sydney, one of course being Bondi and the other Manly.
And since Manly is a ferry ride over the Harbour away we decided upon that one.
It is great to see Sydney from a different perspective.
Now Manly beach is of course crowded as it is one of
the not so many patroled beaches near Sydney. They put up the yellow/red flags on the beach and you can swim
between them. The reason is strong currents , jellyfish and sharks, since they can't patrol the whole beach,and they
always reserve some space for surfers.
Now the jellyfish are a fact...what you could do is not worry and if you get stung wash it off with fresh water.
Luckily there were no box jellyfish colonies near the beach,so the sting wouldn't kill you.
The coast guard patrols the beach in aeroplanes and monitors shark activities. We had 1 shark warning yesterday
as some 25 hammerhead sharks got too close to the beach. If you add 12 volleyball courts to that you might say we
enjoyed our day...A LOT :)

Sydney drugi dan.Ali naj raje rečem prvi dan vročinskega vala. 38 stopinj. Vlažno.
Ni bilo druge izbire kot da sva začela dan v ohlajenem okolju Wildlife World-a.ki te v 5 nadstropjih odpelje
po živalskem svetu Avstralije,na voljo so kače,pajki,vrečarji,nočne živali,....in vsemu se lahko izjemno približaš.
Zelo prijetno za otroka v nama.


Po tem sva se odločila za plažo. Sydney ima 2 zelo znani plaži.
Bondi seveda in Manly in ker te do Manly odpelje trajekt preko zaliva sva se odločila za slednjo.
Fantastično je videti Sydney iz te perspektive.
Manly plaža je seveda prepolna ljudi,saj je ena izmed redkih nadziranih plaž.
V praksi to pomeni da postavijo dve zastavi na plažo in kopanje je dovoljeno samo v območju med njima. Razlog tega je predvsem
v močnih tokovih,količini ljudi,morskih psih,surferjih.meduzah.....Meduze so dejstvo in ne samo mit...in vse kar ti preostane
je da se ne sekiraš in spereš s sladko vodo v primeru ožiga. Hvalabogu tokrat v bližini ni bilo izjemno nevarnih
"Box Jellyfish" ampak njihove milejše sestrične. Obalna straža redno preletava plažo z letali in pazi na populacije morskih psov.
Imeli smo samo 1 opozorilo včeraj (in morali ven iz vode) saj je kakih 25 morskih psov prišlo preblizu obale.
Če na vse to dodaš še 12 igrišč za odbojko na mivki,lahko rečem da sva se imela prekrasno :)