A great walk past the fish markets.
Federal Park, Rozelle Bay
Rozelle Park
Sydney Fish Markets
Sydney Fish Markets
Under the Anzac Bridge
Anzac Bridge
Anzac Bridge
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Blackwattle Bay
Posted: May 8, 2016 in Inner WestTags: Sydney, sydney harbor, Sydney Harbour, Sydney weekends, Things to do in Sydney, this weekend in Sydney, what to do in Sydney
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Birchgrove to East Balmain
Posted: April 30, 2016 in Inner West, Sydney Harbour, WalkingTags: 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.
Birchgrove to Drummoyne
Posted: April 3, 2016 in Inner WestTags: 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!
From Louisa Rd Birchgrove to Drummoyne
Birchgrove Point, end of Louisa Rd. The Coal Loader cafe and Waverton are across the harbour where the orange is
Birchgrove Ferry wharf, Yurulbin Park.
Looking through a carpark over to Cockatoo Island
Hidden garage door. Nice!
Looking across towards Cockatoo Island from Birchgrove
Narrow blocks, still worth a fortune.
Beautiful little park at Balmain Sailing club that leads around west towards Dawn Fraser Baths
Balmain Sailing Club
Elkington Park, Dawn Fraser Baths at left
Looking towards Dawn Fraser Pool. Beautiful fig leaning into the water.
World famous Dawn Fraser Baths at Birchgrove (Balmain)
Elkington Park, Cockatoo Island behind
Elkington Park, Cockatoo Island behind
Marina at Rozelle, in front of the site of the old Balmain Power Station
Pump House, relic from the old Balmain Power Station.
Iron Cove Bridge, walking west towards Birkenhead Factory Outlet Centre
View towards Schnapper Island and North Sydney from Drummoyne
Peppercorn Park, Drummoyne.
Beautiful development at Drummoyne… “Breeze” in St Georges Cres. Could move in tomorrow!
Waverton to Greenwich
Posted: March 20, 2016 in Sydney HarbourTags: breakfast, cafe, Coffee, Sydney, sydney harbor, Sydney Harbour, Sydney weekends, Weekends in Sydney
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.
Drummoyne – East of Gladesville Bridge
Posted: March 4, 2016 in Sydney HarbourTags: ferry, Sydney, Sydney Harbour, Sydney weekends, Things to do in Sydney, Weekends in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend
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 😉
Waverton to Milsons Point
Posted: February 29, 2016 in Sydney HarbourTags: Sydney, sydney harbor, this weekend in Sydney, Weekends in Sydney, what to do in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend
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
Parramatta ~ Harris Park Heritage Walk
Posted: January 24, 2016 in Sydney HarbourTags: ferry, Sydney, sydney harbor, Sydney Harbour, Sydney weekends, Things to do in Sydney, walking inner Sydney, Weekends in Sydney, what to do in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend
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; 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! 🙂
Week 51 ~ Y is for Youth
Posted: December 8, 2015 in Inner WestTags: Sydney, Sydney weekends, Things to do in Sydney, walking inner Sydney, Weekends in Sydney
If you grew up in Sydney like we did, you’ll remember buying 5c paper tickets and catching myriad buses to school and the shops
Sydney’s Bus Museum fell into dis-repair some time ago and Wednesday night was the preview night of the new museum.
Now, let’s get one thing straight here… we are NOT bus officianados or even remotely interested in the actual history of transport in Sydney… I think we were the only ones who weren’t!
Rather, this is what the whole point of this doing something together project is about. To do something together that we wouldn’t normally do.
In the old bus, from Central Station to Leichhardt
I remember these posters!
Ryde local bus
Never too old to play!
Week 50 ~ X is for Xenophobia
Posted: December 7, 2015 in WalkingTags: beach, Coffee, cronulla, Sydney, Sydney weekends, Weekends in Sydney, what to do in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend
The ugly face of Australian racism.
The 2005 Cronulla riots were a series of clashes and outbreaks of mob violence in Australia on 11 December 2005 in the Sydney suburb of Cronulla.
Racial tensions were already prevalent between local caucasian and middle eastern Australians due to earlier altercations between groups.
A crowd gathered at Cronulla on the morning of Sunday, 11 December 2005 and, by midday, approximately 5,000 people had gathered near the beach to protest against recent violence towards locals. However, fuelled by alcohol, the crowd turned to violence when a young man of Arab appearance was spotted on the beach. He was surrounded by a crowd outside a local hotel and attacked, along with similar attacks later that day. Retaliatory attacks also took place that night and on subsequent nights, resulting in extensive property damage and several more assaults, including two separate, racially motivated stabbings and even some attacks against ambulance and police officers.
The attacks were widely condemned by local, state and federal members of parliament, police, local community leaders, and residents of Cronulla and adjacent areas. A large number of arrests were made over the subsequent months, from both the initial riot on 11 December and the retaliations over the subsequent nights.
10 years on and a rally was planned to remember the riots.
We thought it might be an opportune time to reflect on the violence and racism surrounding this event, so we went to Cronulla for a swim and a looksee.
Dick heads the lot of them.
Week 49 ~ W is for Wendy Whiteley’s Garden
Posted: December 6, 2015 in Sydney HarbourTags: garden, Sydney, sydney harbor, Sydney Harbour, Sydney weekends, Things to do in Sydney, this weekend in Sydney, what to do in Sydney
After the death of her husband (artist Brett Whitely) Wendy Whiteley started to clean up and landscape a large patch of derelict land adjacent to her home in Lavender Bay, owned by the NSW Rail Corporation. It was choked by weeds, overgrown and strewn with old train carriages, abandoned refrigerators, rotting mattresses and broken bottles, and some homeless people sometimes slept there.
The Rail Corporation had no interest in doing anything with it, and they raised no objections to her beautifying the area.
Over 15 years, it has become a coveted spot for those who have heard about or chanced upon it, with random benches in quiet spots, secluded paths, and a spectacular view to the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
It’s affectionately known by locals as “Wendy’s Secret Garden”, although the public have always had free access.
In October 2015, the New South Wales Government, which owns the land, agreed to give the North Sydney Council a 30-year renewable lease on it. [so says wikipedia]
So on a beautiful Sydney early summer Saturday evening we headed over to the garden with champagne and nibbles to see it for ourselves. We weren’t disappointed.
The first person we came across, working just below her house, was Wendy Whiteley herself.
Sydney Royalty
This was definitely one of the best things we have done this year.
We’ll be back with interstate and overseas visitors for sure 🙂
The gardens have hidden spots with tables and chairs, views, steps and stairs that just draw you to climbing and exploring.
Lovely statues are dotted around the place. Winner winner.
Beautiful Moreton Bay or Port Jackson Fig, with Whiteley’s house behind
Whiteley’s house
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