Back in Sydney

We're lucky we missed Sydney's heatwave early this week. When we got to Coogee yesterday afternoon conditions were perfect... as only Coogee can be .........

As usual we celebrated our good fortune with a welcome drink at the Coogee Bay Hotel.

The Coogee Bay Hotel may not be the best hotel on Sydney's eastern beaches - but you would have to go a long way to beat this bar room view - and those salty breezes coming straight off the Pacific Ocean through the open windows.

Today we tackled a new (for us) harbour walk. This was the rather spectacular view near the start of the walk at Rose Bay (at the bottom of Bayview Hill Road).

We were in seriously opulent real estate (and elite private school) territory as we approached the start of the Hermitage Foreshore Trail.

There were stunning harbour views all along this walk - and picturesque little beaches. This was Queen's Beach in Vaucluse ........

Past Hermit Beach with its lines of kayaks and tinnies parked in waiting for the locals' harbour adventures, and then on to beautiful Milk Beach.

Milk Beach is overlooked by the heritage listed Strickland House.

We kept on walking, past Milk Beach to Shark Beach in Nielsens Bay, 

then around Vaucluse Bay, and across the Parsley Bay Bridge .......

Parsley Bay had the clearest water ... just beautiful .....

We walked all the way then to busy Watsons Bay ..... just in time for lunch ....

The Watsons Bay Hotel was crowded today. Friday lunch at this iconic pub is obviously a thing with the lucky locals.

Our walk took us around 2 hours with all our lookout stops. we found it stunningly beautiful and a walk we'll probably do again. It's hard to believe that in all the years we've been coming to Sydney we've never found it before.