A beautiful afternoon for a bay-side walk.
Today, Easter Friday, we walked from Canada Bay along the waterfont, through Cabarita to Mortlake, near the car ferry across the river to Putney.
We love walking through areas where the home owners don’t own the water; makes for a much nicer walk 🙂
A beautiful path virtually the whole way.
The end of Durham St, Canada Bay. The start of today’s path
Bayview Park, near Massey Park Golf Course
Looking west towards Breakfast Point
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
Berry Island
Looking back towards the Coal Loader
At the point off Berry Island
Along the path between Berry Island and Greenwich
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.
Parts of Longueville are beautiful!
We had a great walk around the streets as close to the waterfront as we possibly could – sadly, the absolute waterfront is owned by the private residences leading down to that water. Beautiful houses on big blocks of land, some nice local parks and walkways too.
Given the the tide was well out, we did try to walk around some of the foreshore, however the mangrove mud was VERY soft!
Northwood appears to be a locality inside Longueville – I only mention it in the title as this is the ferry wharf you would go to to explore this neck of the woods.
Looking forward to exploring a bit more of this area in the weeks ahead.
This week’s progress
Dubois St Longuville. Beautiful homes fronting the river
The sand was a little soft! And got a LOT softer!
Arabella St Longuville. Views to the city 🙂
Arabella St Longuville. Views to the city 🙂
Northwood Road
Looking across the bay to Woolwich (Marist Sisters College)
Lovely park near Kelly’s Esplanade, near Northwood Ferry wharf
Spectacular views to the city from Arabella St (and very cool front and garage doors!)
Spectacular views to the city from Arabella St
The Swans v Giants pre-season footy match was on Friday night so we parked the car near Drummoyne Oval a little beforehand and headed east towards the city. Some beautiful water-front real estate, a few hidden parks. Nice 🙂
Rea Reserve, Drummoyne Ave
Rea Reserve, Drummoyne Ave
Some beautiful waterfront real estate with views east to the harbour bridge. Some places make it easier to sticky-beak than others!
From Drummoyne ferry wharf
Lovely little park at the end of Lyons Rd
Private beach and a dog park opposite Spectacle Island
Private beach and a dog park opposite Spectacle Island
Drummoyne Oval
Drummoyne Oval. Swans | Giants pre-season. Cheap entry 😉
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Our mission to try every single country on the planet’s cuisine over the next few years.
Have to start somewhere! There was an Italian Riviera festival at The Opera House over the weekend.
A break in the weather and we were able to get there without too much trouble.
Just like the Italian Riviera!!
We drove down to Rhodes and parked at the northern end of the path, near the railway bridge to Meadowbank.
We unloaded the bikes and headed off south along a beautiful path beside the river in front of all the new apartments at Rhodes.
As the shopping strip peters out, the path continues along the waterfront, through the Rhodes wetlands, past bird sanctuaries, recreation areas and, once we reached Wentworth Point (close to the Olympic Park), housing.
It was raining this day, so we stopped here and had a coffee before returning back a different way through the various Olympic area paths.
The following week, in bright sunshine, we parked the car and headed out from near the Olympic Archery Centre, heading west along the bike path. We rode past the Armory cafe, but had to cross the river at the bridge at Silverwater road as there’s no path through the oil refinery. The path continued on this other side of the river… we rode till it finished near Western Sydney University.
Here we turned around and rode back to the Armory Cafe for breakie. A nice morning 🙂
Bike paths
Rhodes waterfront
The Armory Cafe
The Armory Cafe
Looking east from near Silverwater Road
Heading west towards The Armory Cafe
Heading west towards The Armory Cafe
Wentworth Point (near Olympic Park) from Rhodes
Historic wrecks at Rhodes
Bird watching refuge at the wetlands area near Wentworth Point
Bird watching refuge at the wetlands area near Wentworth Point
On a beautiful, last day of summer day in Sydney, we parked the car at Waverton Station and walked south, down the hill past a small cafe towards the water.
There’s a road that makes its way around Balls Head, but the bush track below the road takes you past a remnant of (recent) old Sydney, the Coal Loader. It’s a beautiful,easy path with beautiful views of the city. Quite the spot for the New Year’s Eve fireworks.
Some beautiful waterfront along Waverton Peninsular Reserve and Waverton Oval to Sawmillers Reserve (which sadly doesn’t go right through to Blues Point.
Wander along the path near Wendy’s Secret Garden to Luna Park and the Harbour Bridge.
A fabulous walk of about 6 or 7 kilometres. Catch the train back to Waverton Station from Milsons Point Station – just 2 stops.
Beautiful Harbour views along the path at Balls Head Reserve
Berry’s Bay
Beautiful Harbour views along the path at Balls Head Reserve
Beautiful Harbour views along the path at Balls Head Reserve
Remnants of the old BP storage facility. Lots of round tank holes hewn into the rock.
Sawmillers Reserve
The Goods Line is a shared pedestrian and cycle path and green public space, connecting Ultimo with Darling Harbour.
The line provides a pedestraian and cycle path from Central Station to Darling Harbour, with mixed-use spaces to enjoy – dining tables, grassy spaces, table tennis tables, study pods amongst the trees and a children’s water play area with a sand pit shaded by trees.
A fabulous re-use of what was a busy industrial railway line.
http://www.shfa.nsw.gov.au/sydney-Our_places_and_projects-Our_projects-The_Goods_Line.htm
Only a short walk, but so well done
Past the iconic Dr Chau Chak Wing Building (designed by Frank Gehry – The “Paper Bag building”)
Past the iconic Dr Chau Chak Wing Building (designed by Frank Gehry – The “Paper Bag building”)
Back from our holiday to India and so ready to resume normal weekend service!
Our plan this year? We enjoyed walking the beaches and coast so much in 2014 that we decided to do the same this year, except we will hug the inland waterways. Late Sunday afternoon we headed out to Parramatta Ferry Wharf to begin walking East along the southern shore.
We parked the car at Parramatta wharf and walked towards Rosehill racecourse along the Harris Park Heritage Walk, a really nice path along the (pretty murky this far up stream) Parramatta River with terrific signposting advising various historical sites that used to be there
It’s well done;Â love wandering along bits of Sydney we’ve never seen before.
Had to start the year somewhere, so we chose Parramatta Wharf
The stern of the last HMAS Parramatta
NIce work along the path
Robyn has taught at two schools with Ellengowan in their name. This is the original site of Tara Anglican School at North Parramatta.
About 200 km to go! 🙂
The end of the Alphabet.
The end of the Year.
Seemed an appropriate time to visit the end of a significant Life.
We’re currently on holiday in India, so today we went to 3 significant sites regarding Gandhi.
We left the hotel with the intention of visiting the Gandhi Smrity, the site on Tees January road in New Delhi where Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated.
However, our tuk-tuk driver took us to where Gandhi was cremated. Once again, shoes off as made our way to the venerated ground. Quite a nice, large park in the middle of busy Delhi; a bit of peace and quiet.
From here we asked another tuk-tuk driver to take us to Gandhi Smrity, but alas, we were taken to where Indira Gandhi was murdered by her own body guards. It’s at the house where she (and her son, later Prime Minister Rajiv) lived. Her last steps are commemorated by a glass path, and where she fell is identified by a clear glass panel. Obviously a very revered figure, the museum was chockers with local Indian tourists seemingly intent on capturing any photo as evidence that they had visited rather then reading any of the exhibits.
A quick check of the map revealed that we weren’t far from where we wanted to go, so rather than risk another failed tuk-tuk attempt, we headed off on foot.
We’re glad we did… we found the quietest, most beautiful part of Delhi that exists I think. Beautiful tree-lined streets, and guards and soldiers with machine guns every 50 metres or so keeping the hoi polloi at bay.
We were surprised to find the museum and grounds almost deserted… as such a significant figure, venerated for his role in gaining independence for India, there were bugger-all people there.
The museum display was pretty good, with plenty of information about his life and thoughts for India.
Something that stood out for me was his enthusiasm for women to be respected, educated and considered equal. Alarming and the path of his last walk and where he was shot (by a disgruntled Indian nationalist) are nicely maintained.
The irony of being shot like that, after a lifetime of advocating peace and unity.
Mahatma Gandhi’s cremation site
Indira Gandhi was assassinated along this path. Where she actually fell is under the sheet of glass.
Indira Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi’s last steps
Mahtma Gandhi assassination area.
So, this weekend, we... 