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Pyrmont/ANZAC Bridge to Harbour Bridge

Posted: July 24, 2016 in Sydney Harbour
Tags: inner west, Sydney, sydney harbor, Sydney Harbour, Sydney History, Sydney weekends, Things to do in Sydney, walk, walking inner Sydney, weekends, Weekends in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

Chilly!

After parking, we walked to the base of the ANZAC Bridge where we had walked some weeks ago and walked around the water’s edge to the bridge, completing that bit of the loop.

Breakie at Zebra Lounge along the way, and a coffee on one of the finger wharves before walking past the new Barangaroo urban development, we finished up at The Rocks where Sydney’s annual Aroma Coffee festival was running.

Great day.

ANZAC Bridge, where the old Glebe Island Bridge is/was.

Pirrama Park, near Flying Fish restaurant

New buildings between king St Wharf and Barangaroo

Cardboard architecture… I guess because this is temporary, waiting for the new casino to be built??

New buildings between king St Wharf and Barangaroo

Coffee along the way in the Jones Bay Wharf area

Aroma coffee festival in The Rocks

Waverton to Woolwich

Posted: July 18, 2016 in Sydney Streets
Tags: Local, Sydney, walk, walking sydney, weekend, weekends

We started with breakfast at The Coal Loader Cafe. in Balls Head Rd at Waverton, where we were a few weeks ago.
Beautiful spot – have to remember this as a venue for a 60th or similar.

From there we headed west, making our way around Balls Head Bay and Oyster Cove, around Berry Island Reserve and on towards Greenwich above the fuel tanks at Gore Cove, some of which have been removed, but some are still in use today, pumping fuel from here to Clyde near Parramatta.

Coal Loader Cafe to Greenwich Rd

Coal Loader Cafe. Lovely.

Coal Loader Cafe

Old wharf fallen into disrepair at Waverton below the Coal Loader Cafe

Old street signs art installation below the Coal Loader Cafe

Looking west towards Wondakiah Dr

Tunnel under the old Coal Loader site

Oyster Cove at the end of Wondakiah Dr at Waverton. Dense housing around, but lots of parkland maintained. Nice!

Remnant of the old gasworks at Oyster Cove at the end of Wondakiah Dr at Waverton. Dense housing around, but lots of parkland maintained

Berry Island – the point where land was filled to connect it to the mainland and make it no longer an island as such,

Berry Island

Looking back towards the Coal Loader

At the point off Berry Island

Along the path between Berry Island and Greenwich

Hollaway Park

Hollaway Park, at the end of Vista St. Beautiful little park with a view

Vista St Greenwich

THE spot to watch the fireworks in Sydney! Greenwich Rd, above Gore Cove.

Ryde Bridge to Gladesville

Posted: July 17, 2016 in Sydney Harbour
Tags: breakfast, cafe, Coffee, ferry, inner west, sydney harbor, Sydney Harbour, Sydney weekends, Things to do in Sydney, this weekend in Sydney, walking inner Sydney, weekend, weekends, what to do in Sydney

Overcast and showery for a walk today through Putney towards Gladesville.
A real mix of houses, some beautiful, some ugly, others huge and some obviously just sitting on a goldmine by the water and refusing to waste a cent on any renovation or work before selling for demolition in the future.

Who knew that the original James Squire Bewery, Australia’s first brewery, was in Ryde, eh? Well, Putney. Where the red spot is below.

A lot of this walk was along the waterfront and through parks… nice.

Hunters Hill to Huntleys Cove

Posted: June 30, 2016 in Sydney Harbour
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Lovely afternoon sun for a walk through a historic part of Hunters Hill.

How ridiculous there are no apostrophes in place names any more because people don’t know how to use them. Grrr

Beautiful historic houses

The old school mistress’s house for Hunters Hill school

Playing fields at Hunleys Cove

Looking east from Hunleys Cove

Looking west from Hunleys Cove

Pulpit Point (Hunters Hill)

Posted: June 24, 2016 in Sydney Harbour
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A windy walk around Pulpit Point today.

What a mixture… contemporary town houses, Southern Belle mansions, garish, horribly painted abominations, red brick originals, massive older houses on huge blocks and some new steel and glass.

We’d manage to live there, though; hell of a location!

Pathway at the end of Francis St.

Pathway at the end of Francis St. Gorgeous.

End of Francis St. Gorgeous Japanese garden.

Pulpit Point marina

Gladesville Bridge from Pulpit Point

Looking north from Fern Rd Reserve

Good that Eddie Obeid lives behind bars… gives him a chance to get used to it.

Woolwich

Posted: June 19, 2016 in Sydney Harbour
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Another short walk around the Woolwich peninsular, this time on a rainy winter morning.

Some stunning houses.

Looking north towards St Ignatius’ College, Riverview

We had no idea that some of the houses on Woolwich Rd go all the way down to the river, and have a reserve in front of them. Stunning!

Always time for a coffee

Balmain East to White Bay

Posted: June 16, 2016 in Sydney Harbour
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A holiday Monday, we finished off walking around Balmain East. What an eclectic mix of old and new, architecturally designed glass and steel and flaking weatherboard, big and tiny, light and dark, loved and tendered and falling into disrepair.

As this area was historically “working man’s territory”, I don’t think there’s a better example of asset rich, cash poor anywhere else in Sydney; residents sitting on millions of dollars of real estate, without the means to renovate and take advantage of views and location.

From Peacock Pt, Illoura Park, East Balmain.

An old public incinerator.

Houses in Little Nicholson St with absolutely no vehicle access.

The foot of Union St

Ewenton Park

From White Bay Park

The Balmain overseas terminal from Birrung Park

Greenwich

Posted: June 12, 2016 in Sydney Harbour
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A cool winter’s morning walk around Greenwich Point this weekend.

Not shown on any maps are the walkways and paths and steps that make this a loop walk rather than a series of dead-end streets.

Looking across the The Deckhouse and Woolwich Dock.

Lovely little park above Greenwich Baths

From The Coal Loader at Waverton on the left, Louisa Rd and Birchgrove in the middle to Coakatoo Island on the right

Greenwich Sailing Club, just east of Greenwich Baths

City across to Anzac Bridge

Iron Cove Bridge and Birkenhead Point in the background

From the walkway at the end of Gother Ave

From the walkway at the end of Gother Ave

A reminder that Sydney is still, in some places, a working port. Oil/Petrol tanks at Greenwich.

Woolwich Point

Posted: May 22, 2016 in Sydney Harbour
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A beautiful Sydney late autumn Sunday; t-shirts and shorts, 25C and winter is a week away.

There’s some stunning homes in this part of Sydney.

The city from Hunters Hill wharf

Substantial engineering to maximise the expensive real estate!

Hunters Hill wharf

Cafe near Woolwich Pier Hotel

Love this gate!

Here come The Habibs house

Hunters Hill

Posted: May 16, 2016 in Sydney Harbour
Tags: Sydney weekends, this weekend in Sydney, walking inner Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

Beautiful Sydney weather (25 or more in Sydney only 2 weeks out from the start of Winter. Winter seems a long way off) so we headed out late Sunday afternoon for a wander around Hunters Hill.

Our daughters went to school nearby, but once again we were surprised to find ourselves traipsing along parts of the Parramatta River we have never seen before.

Some spectacular houses along here, with a real mix of old, 60s and 70s and modern. People own the waterfront, so it’s hard to walk along the water’s edge 😦