Wonderful creatures and features of Manly

As some of you know we are trying to move to Manly (if we can ever find a nice, affordable place). I thus thought I'd show you what Manly beach looks like. I must however admit that there generally is many more tourists on the beach as this photo was taken in the middle of winter here. Besides being a 15 minute ferry ride from Circular Quay, Sydney CBD, we are really looking forward to moving to Manly as the divecentre we usually go with is there, as well some rather good divelocation. This weekend we have visited two of those places. The picture of the seahorse is from the sharknets down by the manly ferry. The nets are actually rather amazing as they have been left for things to grow on for quite some time and there is hundreds of seahoarses hanging onto the nets to protect themselves from swell. I was soo happy after this dive as I have always wanted to see a seahorse. I will however have to go back down and try to get a better photo of them as I am not very pleased with this one.

Additionally we went to Fairlight beach, which is just a few hundred metres to the left of the wharf. Here we saw some pretty big Port Jackson sharks as well as a few different nudibranchs.

I really want a macro lens to capture these very small but beautiful creatures better!!!

Blue Mountains

Last weekend we decided to do a little daytrip to the Blue Mountains, which is about an hour west of Sydney CBD. The area is in fact very large and suitable for hiking. Me and Markus were however a bit lazy and did a shorter walk incorporating all of the most famous/touristy bits of the park. We started at the Three sisters, which you can see above. We then walked to a skyline that took us across a waterfall to the entry if the worlds steepest tram, and I can assure you it was pretty steep!!!

The tram was originally put in place for shipping of coal from the mines at the bottom, but became a very popular means of transportation for many tourists that did not wish to take the two hour walk down to the bottom during the weekends. Eventually it was rebuilt and turned into a pure tourist attraction. As you can see below there is also some nice lookout points in the park, this one called the honeymoon outlook.

France with the family

Hi everyone!

As many of you know Markus and I have decided to stay in Australia for some time. As I had some time between finishing my degree and starting work, I decided to go back to Sweden and spend some time with the family. Markus could unfortunately not come as he is already working.

I must admit I was quite lucky as dad had decided to take the family for a holiday to southern France, or a small village between Clavier and Bargemon up in the mountains to be more precise, with Annikas brother and his family.

It was really good to spend all that time with the family just relaxing. We mostly spent our days sunbathing by the pool or down in Antibes or Nice. Another thing I really enjoyed was the tennis classes my brother Karl gave me, even though he informed me that I play worse than a monkey.

The picture to the left shows Julia, my 15 year old sister and Paula, her cousin. The three of us took our chance to do a little dance at the locals foam party in the village of Clavier. The foam got really high, even up to our ears at one time and we were soaked when we were leaving. We did however have a really good night.

Below you can see one of the little streets in one of the other villages we visited, as well as dad and Annika in Grasse and a cute worm me, Annika and Julia found on one of our small exploration walks.

This final picture shows me and both of my sisters, Elinor and Julia (from the left).