Sunday 11th July
12.00 pm

A MANLY MOMENT
MUSEUM VISIT AND SEASIDE DELIGHTS!

WOOD & STONE (corner of The Esplanade & Belgrave St) opposite and to the left of the ferry. Meet for lunch at this stylish wood fired pizzeria, famous for their mouth watering food - I can truly recommend this nosh! After lunch we’ll be visiting The Manly Museum which proudly preserves Manly’s unique history and houses some fine paintings by Tom Roberts, Lloyd Rees, Margaret Preston and many more. We’ll be seeing a special Exhibition of Sydney’s Northern Beach Houses built during the last 150 yrs, by architects like Walter Burley Griffin and Harry Seidler, giving a fascinating insight into their work. We’ll then be taking that great coastal walk to beautiful Fairy Bower and Shelley Beach, and stopping for coffee as we wind our way back along the Esplanade. $58 (museum not inc)


Sunday 25th July
12.00

COCKATOO ISLAND
BIENNALE MAGIC ON THE HARBOUR

LOWENBRAU Cnr of Argyle and Playfair Streets, The Rocks. A touch of the Bier Hall today, for some tasty German fayre and a cool glass of lager. We then set sail by ferry, over to wonderful Cockatoo Island to see a multitude of interesting and innovative art works. This year 50 Biennale artists will be showing their different styles in Sydney Harbour and Australia’s most unusual park with it’s commanding views over the harbour. A former prison and shipyard, the island retains many remnants from its industrial past. It’s convict built prison buildings have been nominated for World Heritage listing, and it’s where “Water Rat’s” was filmed. It is the site of one of Australia’s biggest shipyards, the first of its two dry docks was built by convicts in 1857. You can even stay in stylish accommodation on the island. But not today! Coffee in the Rocks. $60


22nd August
12.00

WENDY WHITELYS GARDEN
BLUES POINT ROAD LUNCH - LUNA PARK AND A BAY WALK

BILLIE’S 129 Blues Point Road McMahons Point. Plenty of free parking. For the past ten years, Wendy Whiteley has created a magic and secret garden from the wasteland sloping down from the home she shared with Brett Whiteley overlooking Lavender Bay. Tiered in old sleepers and “found objects” a maze of paths and bowers are camouflaged by tropical foliage and a giant Moreton Bay fig tree, the natural wonder of this garden is one of Sydney’s best kept secrets. It is an oasis of calm where both Brett and their daughter Arkie’s ashes are buried. It is a hallowed blissful place, where sometimes, Wendy can be seen raking up the leaves. We leave the garden and wind our way around the railway tracks to Luna Park, past Harry Seidler’s landmark curved apartment building by the Big Dipper and onto Kirribilli for a coffee. $60