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Mortlake to Rhodes

Posted: September 11, 2016 in Inner West, Sydney Harbour, Walking
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Glorious spring day for a walk from Mortlake to Rhodes, through Concord and the grounds of Dame Edith Walker Hospital, Thomas Walker Hospital near Concord Hospital and Yaralla.

Mortlake Point, Hilly Street, Mortlake

City in the background from the car ferry

Car ferry home from Mortlake to Putney

Ferrari owners club day at Brays Bay Reserve

In the extensive grounds of Dame Edith Walker Hospital

Ferrari owners club day at Brays Bay Reserve

In the extensive grounds of Dame Edith Walker Hospital

We tripped over a fair in Yaralla grounds

Looking back across to Mortlake

In the extensive grounds of Dame Edith Walker Hospital

Path near Yaralla, along the mangroves

City views from Mortlake Point

Mortlake Point, Hilly Street, Mortlake

Drummoyne to Canada Bay

Posted: August 14, 2016 in Inner West, Sydney Harbour
Tags: cycle, cycleway, inner west, Sydney, sydney harbor, Sydney Harbour, Things to do in Sydney, this weekend in Sydney, walk, walking inner Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

Beautiful sunny Sunday morning for a bike ride around the waterfront of the inner west, through Drummoyne, Russell Lea, Chiswick, Abbotsford, Five Dock and Canada Bay.

Past the site of the old Nestle Factory too.The original house is still there as you can see in the pics below.

nestle

Riverview to Northwood

Posted: August 8, 2016 in Inner West, Sydney Harbour, Walking
Tags: ferry, inner west, Sydney, sydney harbor, Sydney Harbour, Things to do in Sydney, this weekend in Sydney, walking inner Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

Displayed in various places around St Ignatius’ College, Riverview are signs advising that they welcome visitors to enjoy walking through their grounds. What a pleasant surprise!

We started below the college and walked up through the bush to the top ovals, then made our way through the grounds past beautiful, quiet, contemplative spaces down to the river.

A path along the riverfront, past various rowing boat sheds, sailing clubs, scout halls, parks, marshy swamp and ferry wharves eventually leads to and links up with streets in Northwood.

Top of Riverview

Gorgeous little shed in the gardens.

Great place to sit and be quiet. Overlooking the river

The original old building

Historic path that joins the College to the boatshed and the river. Built by the original land owner before it was a school.

Boat shed

Looking east towards the city

The site of the original well on the estate.

The site of the old Tambourine Bay Baths

Gorgeous old house in Stuart St, Longueville.

Rowing boat shed, looking across to Marist Sisters College, Woolwich.

Boatshed. Get your own scull out of the club without security issues.

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

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
Tags: ferry, inner west, Sydney, sydney harbor, Sydney Harbour, Things to do in Sydney, this weekend in Sydney, walk, walking inner Sydney, weekend, weekends, Weekends in Sydney, what to do in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

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
Tags: inner west, Sydney, sydney harbor, Sydney Harbour, Sydney weekends, Things to do in Sydney, this weekend in Sydney, walk, walking inner Sydney, Weekends in Sydney, what to do in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

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 Point

Posted: May 22, 2016 in Sydney Harbour
Tags: cafe, ferry, inner west, sydney harbor, this weekend in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

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

Cooks River near Hurlstone Park

Posted: May 14, 2016 in Inner West
Tags: breakfast, cooks river, cycle, cycleway, inner west, Sydney weekends, Things to do in Sydney, walking inner Sydney, Weekends in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

After an early morning airport drop-off, a sunrise walk along part of the Cooks River this morning. Pretty impressive what the councils along this river have done to clean it up and make it somewhere you might want to walk.

By the Cooks River near Dulwich Hill

Breakfast at Shenkin at Erskinville. Great Israeli food.

Birchgrove to East Balmain

Posted: April 30, 2016 in Inner West, Sydney Harbour, Walking
Tags: ferry, inner west, Sydney, sydney harbor, Sydney Harbour, Things to do in Sydney, this weekend in Sydney, Weekends in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

After a couple of weeks off with Robyn overseas, we picked up again this weekend to walk from the end of Darling St west to Birchgrove.

Views across just 500m of harbour to the new Barangaroo site from the southern side of Darling St, beautiful waterfront parkland and renovated historic factory buildings and industrial waterfront.

All in all, a great walk.

The city is just a stone’s throw away across the entrance to Darling Harbour

Barangaroo from East Balmain

Cool. Art on the side of a house at Duke St

The old Colgate Factory, now factory apartments.

Ferry workshops near the Colgate factory

Didn’t know that Mort Bay was named after a person and not anything to do with Death as such. Nor did we know that WWII vessels were manufactured in Balmain.

Australia’s oldest dry dock here at Mort Bay

Mort Bay

Ballast Point Park, Birchgrove. Worth a visit.

Ballast Point Park, Birchgrove.

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Mortlake to Rhodes

Drummoyne to Canada Bay

Riverview to Northwood

Pyrmont/ANZAC Bridge to Harbour Bridge

Ryde Bridge to Gladesville

Hunters Hill to Huntleys Cove

Pulpit Point (Hunters Hill)

Woolwich Point

Cooks River near Hurlstone Park

Birchgrove to East Balmain