There are literally hundreds of saints Days, but none are celebrated with the gusto of Saint Patrick’s Day. Held on the 17th of March, which is the date of his death, St. Patricks actually becomes a long weekend of all …
Category: Manly & the Ferry
Queenscliff Lagoon and California Common
The ridiculous amount of rain in Sydney has had many consequences across our fair city (though nothing like the havoc being wrought in the bush). On the glorious insular peninsula the rain has caused the Queenscliff Lagoon to breach its …
Manly-Freshwater World Surfing Reserve, Kelly Slater and Victory Prima Pils
There were big crowds at Manly today to see surf legend Kelly Slater do the honours dedicating Manly-Freshwater as only the third World Surfing Reserve. It’s an odd designation in my view. The best way to describe its purpose is …
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Queen Mary 2 and a trio of Matso’s
The Queen Mary 2 has been written about before on Back of the Ferry, when it came into Sydney Harbour with the Queen Elizabeth. This time the ships came in separately. The Queen Mary 2 this time berthed at the …
Deadman’s sunrise and Iron House Pale Ale
As has previously been written, the 2011/12 Sydney summer has been one to forget. Cool weather and plenty of rain has dominated. Every now and then, however, a cracker is turned on and Sunday 19 February was one of those …
Back on the back of the ferry, @HopDogBW Black Sunshine and Harlem on Central
Whilst there’s been a number of one-off journeys on the back of the ferry, all of January went by before all of the foundation BotF members were able to make a trip home together in 2012. Like much of January, …
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A ferry tradition begins, whilst another one ends
From what I can gather, the Manly Ferry has, in one form or another, been going since 1855 or for 156 years. This correspondent’s been availing himself of its delights for about 10 years and Back of the Ferry has …
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The one that got away
Illiard’s Reinvigorated Irregulars was at long last revived last weekend. A tradition that had begun some 10 years or so ago, where hordes would assemble at Illiards command to imbibe xmas cheer, the event had foundered in more recent years. …
Sydney’s sea fog and Sam Adams Noble Pils
This weekend in Sydney has seen a relatively rare meteorological phenomenon – thick sea fog. The Northern Beaches have been blanketed each morning with what looked like dense steam. There had been some backburning up at West Head, which had …
Craft beer led Greek recovery?
Lately we’ve been graced again with the presence of member Will or, as known when he submits posts to Back of the Ferry – oompalumpa. Oompalumpa has submitted some of the more quirky posts on BotF and interpreting his weekly …
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