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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

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.

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

Posted: June 19, 2016 in Sydney Harbour
Tags: breakfast, cafe, Coffee, ferry, Sydney, sydney harbor, Sydney Harbour, Sydney weekends, walk, weekends, Weekends in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

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

Greenwich

Posted: June 12, 2016 in Sydney Harbour
Tags: ferry, Sydney, sydney harbor, Sydney weekends, this weekend in Sydney, walk, walking inner Sydney, Weekends in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

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.

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 😦

Beautiful homes on the waterfront – these at Alexandra St Wharf (which we didn’t even know existed!)

There’s a good number of historic houses in the area – many would have been very simple worker’s cottages back in the day.

At the foot of Mount St, just near Hunters Hill High School.
There used to be fairgrounds here, and a dance hall, with picnickers arriving by ferry.

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.

Blackwattle Bay

Posted: May 8, 2016 in Inner West
Tags: Sydney, sydney harbor, Sydney Harbour, Sydney weekends, Things to do in Sydney, this weekend in Sydney, what to do in Sydney

A great walk past the fish markets.

Federal Park, Rozelle Bay

Rozelle Park

Sydney Fish Markets

Under the Anzac Bridge

Anzac Bridge

Birchgrove to Drummoyne

Posted: April 3, 2016 in Inner West
Tags: Sydney, sydney harbor, Sydney Harbour, Sydney weekends, Things to do in Sydney, walk, walking inner Sydney, Weekends in Sydney

A beautiful walk from the end of narrow Louisa Rd, west around some gorgeous waterfront past the Dawn Fraser Baths and the site of the old Balmain Power Station, over the Iron Cove bridge, along the front of Birkenhead Factory Outlet Centre to Drummoyne.

Fab!