DAY 4 (15 NOV)

After three days of great sunshine (which was already better than forcasted, but I wasn't complaining), the weather turned gloomy. I didn't have far-flung plans for this day, but the overcast skies didn't help, in any case.

The morning involved what I termed a "Ferry Run", which was a plan to hop on and off as many ferries possible. So I made stops at McMachons Point, Balmain East, and Milsons Point (at Jeffery's Street Wharf), all places that I've not looked around before. The views, while mostly familiar, were at least from different directions, so the perspectives were slightly different.

Perhaps I would go to some of these areas again on days with better weather.

After hopping off the ferryt at Jefferys Street, I took the train to Waverton, and walked to Balls Head Reserve. The views were once again of the harbour, but further west, and I believe it would have looked much nicer on a clear sunny day.

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After Balls Head, I headed back to Circular Quay, and caught a ferry to Manly. I had planned to try to reach North Head in the afternoon, but while I was still at Manly, it began to rain, and all further explorations had to be postponed (Though I did go out for a short while in the evening, somehow ending up all the way at Macquarie University's train station before going back to the city :P).

DAY 5 (16 NOV)

The 5th day started out as overcast as the day before, but I decided to head for North Head anyway, taking the ferry to Manly once more, and catching a bus from there. Even so, it was still a pretty long walk to the lookout points (The bus stopped near the entrance to Q Station).

The views were great, though the drizzle that started while I was walking and the overcast skies did dampen the mood a little. Didn't spend too long there due to the wet weather, but when I walked back to the bus stop, I realized that I missed the bus (which came once an hour), so I had to walk all the way back to Manly Wharf. And to add on to that, the sky that greeted me back at Manly looked like this:

Yes, the sky cleared up and the sun came out, after I was done walking and exploring North Head...

In any case, I just decided to head on back and continue with my plans, and come back to North Head another time. From Manly, I headed back to Circular Quay, got lunch, and headed right of to Watsons Bay.

After looking around a bit at Greens Point, I headed to South Head once again to visit my favourite lighthouse:

I think it was my 5th visit there, if I'm not mistaken.

TBC in one final post...