Discovering a new beach

This morning my wife took Scully to work, which meant I had an entire morning to do whatever I wanted. I dithered a bit, trying to thin of something interesting, and ended up deciding I should probably take the chance to do a 5k run for my fitness.

I completed that by 10:30, with warm-up and warm-down stretches, and having a shower and so on. Then I looked again at the problem of finding something interesting and fun to do. I browsed around on Google Maps and discovered a tiny beach hidden in a corner of the harbour that I’d never noticed before. It’s called Hayes Street Beach (here on Google Maps), on a small bay in Sydney Harbour. It’s accessed through a tunnel between buildings, and is completely surrounded by nearby houses and shops.

Here’s a panorama of the entire beach:

And a shot of one end, which makes it easier to see the Harbour Bridge in the distance over the peninsula towards the right side.

The green building at the right houses a few shops, most of which were closed, but there was one open cafe named Thelma & Louise (after the movie) where I had lunch:

It was very expensive and the food was only average, so overall it was on the disappointing side. I also walked around the streets in this area a little, admiring some of the old houses and their architecture. Here’s a good example of the Federation Queen Anne style.

I picked up Scully from my wife’s work after lunch and spent the afternoon doing comics stuff, before three ethics classes this evening. The Names topic seems to be a good one, with plenty of spirited discussion and differences of opinion among the kids about what sort of names are appropriate or not for parents to give to children.