Third weekend in Sydney, March 2008.

Anyways after drinks, Rinesh picked me up to have some nice Japanese food over at Crown Street up at Surry Hills at around 9.

This Japanese place was really not bad at all, I had teppanyaki chicken, which was cooked right at the table on a hot plate. Very enjoyable especially after all those drinks earlier. This is the place we went to.

On Saturday, Grace and I took the bus over to Coogee beach to meet up with Julian. We were going to take the Coastal Walk right up to the famous Bondi beach.

There were really quite a lot of people on Coogee beach today - it wasn't that warm but there was very decent sun so I think everyone thought it was still a good day for the beach non-the-less.

Grace had never taken taken any jumping shots before so I got her to do a couple of attempts. Pretty good for a first time I must say!

I attempted a flying kick one here first (before the one I showed earlier), and we couldn't capture one of me with the kick in full, but this one actually came out pretty well. I really liked it too.

Anyways barely a while climbing up the cliffs by the side of Coogee - the beginning of our Coastal journey, we encountered this metal loops structure. Another picture opportunity (for me to monkey around). I think I copped a couple of disapproving looks from the older folk walking past taking this picture. Heheh.

We proceeded with the walk, past a bride and groom taking pictures along with their family and entourage. Very beautiful place to take these pictures, up in the cliffs overlooking the ocean.

It was up on these cliffs that I managed to take the flying kick picture earlier. Here's another angle - taken by Grace, in which you can see a boat going out.

We passed Gordon Bay next, a very nice small beach which I thought looked absolutely perfect for snorkeling. This was a beach that does not have lifeguard patrols though, so it might not be too safe for people who want to take swims by themselves here. Might end up in the South Pole or something if you get dragged under by currents and nobody would know.

We took a group picture here on the Coastal walkway.

Walking further up - passing Clovelly Bay, we arrived at Bundock Park. There was this nice little field there facing the ocean that looked like another great picture taking spot.

More opportunity for me to monkey around. I tried hand stands at first, and finally decided to try this move which came out quite well (thanks again to Julian).

Walking on, we had to pass a cemetery, a very old one too, with some of the graves dating through the late 1800s to early 1900s. Very serene and beautiful - overlooking the ocean up on the cliff.

We passed Bronte beach and Tamarama beach next, so this was 3 beaches so far we have walked past. There were quite a lot of surfers at Tamarama, and it was fun watching them attempting the waves there - with some of the surfers pulling off some very nice moves to ride the waves, while some wiped out after a short time.

The next beach was Bondi, which looked absolutely huge compared to the previous beaches.

All in all - we did a 9km walk from Coogee to Bondi beach. Julian's Nokia N95 was able to track our route, such cool features from technology nowadays. If you're interested, this is the route we took.

I met up with JW here, and he took me to the Bondi Junction mall to Kelly's Restaurant for dinner. I had an absolutely fantastic pork ribs and lamb loin chops combo - the meat was so well marinaded and the pork grilled so well, so absolutely yummy I'm still salivating thinking of it now.

That was practically the end of Saturday. We went to the Fish Market on Sunday, and met up with a couple more of Grace's friends there. We stuffed ourselves silly with seafood here. Lobster, calamari, prawns, sashimi, octopus, scallops, flat fish... and of course plenty of chips (which we couldn't finish).

We spent the remainder of the day shopping at Paddington's Market. We had an early dinner of ramen over at Ramen Kan in Chinatown (a place my friend Nelly brought me to in the past) - and we were able to beat the dinner crowd here eating at around 630pm.

Of course, I couldn't pass out on the opportunity to end my eating binge with one of my favourite dessert places - Passion Flower over at Capitol.

As always here's the link to my complete album of this weekend in Flickr.

Pheeewww... what a weekend. One more week left in Sydney! I have to admit, time sure is flying!