On one of the ferry rides from the city back to Manly there was an old Australian gentleman who was describing all of the sights which we passed. A free tourguide who was quite charming. The most interesting I found was the way in which ship captains used to have to navigate their way into the harbour which was using two white pillars which you can see from the harbour mouth. when they lined up it ment you were comming in at the deepest part of the channel and would be able to safely enter.
An interesting bit of harbour history. We also passed the beach where people were quarentined as they immigrated to Australia.
Before I left Sydney I found out that John Yandell a friend since freshman year at Stanford would be showing up in Sydney the next day so I spent the next few days with him and his significant other exploring the south east side of Sydney. They suggested that I head to Byron Bay so the day John left I took off for Byron on the Greyhound.
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