Day 18 - Umina to Manly

It's another Southerly, shoulder busting head on wind. We started with one so it seems fitting to be ending with one too. Tomorrow's going to be one last hard haul to Bondi and then it's done: we'll have completed 740kms down the east Coast from Byron Bay to Bondi beach and we can finally rest, see our girlfriends, eat pizza, watch DVDs, wake up at a normal time and stay as still as possible for as long as we can. It's such an awesome feeling to be here. We've been in such an alien routine and so consistantly physically knackered for so long that being back in normality is actually weird. I'm slightly freaked out. We landed at Shelly beach in Manly at around 12.30pm with Lee waving a couple of beers from the headland and I'm now at home. Scotty's blow drying his hair and dreaming of soy lattes (who knew Aussie's were so metro?) and I've got to go into town and get a new phone having drowned the last one. Bring on the Bondi finish tomorrow. We'll be coming in at around 1pm if you can make it. Hopefully we won't stack it infront of everyone. Proper thanks will come to everyone tomorrow but needless to say Mr and Mrs and Ms, Doug, Christine and Joanna Timbrell have been living legends in supporting us down the coast. See you at Bondi. Rob