Manly Beach~

today i had more fun than i had in teh last few weeks. obviously, seeing the title, i went to Manly beach ^^ originally it was for art55 and to take pics/sketch, but i only ended up getting 5 min of sketching done, took a million pics of the same scene and splashed around in this little patch of beach disconnected from the main one.

Izzy, acted as a tourguide for me and my old school friend Helen, though she kept going to the wrong places unconsciously. At first we saw a little wharf-ish like place and i was so dissapointed cos there was absolutely nothing worth drawing there so we kept looking and finally found teh main beach. A little walk off it, there was a section of beach away from the busy shops and people, where people lived in beautiful old houses with open balconies and there was a quiet little cafe with an antique shop. It was totally unlike the rest of the corso, more peaceful and not as rushed.

guess who did those jumps? i tried to make helen and izzy model for my originaal idea, but it didnt rlly work...so im just doing a normal beach view with all the 'essence of manly' u no, the pine trees, ppl and cafes.

i havent been to manly beach in sooooooo long, i forgot how big and beautiful it was. even though it was kinda cloudy, the sky was pretty and the clouds were puffy with rays of sunlight seeping through, floating by as if they had all the time in the world.

we also took group pics of ourselves by the water, i havent taken so many pics in so long. at firt the water was freezing cold, but it soon seemed to be quite warm after a while, it felt so good to walk aound in the shallows and laugh with friends. we walked back to the corso for hot chips and we got xlarge for $9.90, then realized only 2 ppl were eating it == i kept telling izzy not to feed the seagulls but she did anyway, and she kept teasing them by pretending to throw it and not and watching them fly up then fall down again. those birds were fiesty...

in the end, i wanted to get at least an hour doing sketches and stuff but helen had to catch her bus and i only got 5 min == my feet hurt at the end cos trying 2 powerwalk in thongs is not very comfortable afte a while, though all in all, i thought it was a productive day, but more importantly we had so much fun :)