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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.

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.

Balmain East to White Bay

Posted: June 16, 2016 in Sydney Harbour
Tags: ferry, sydney harbor, Things to do in Sydney, this weekend in Sydney, walk, walking inner Sydney, Weekends in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

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
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.

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!

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

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!

Longueville / Northwood

Posted: March 13, 2016 in Sydney Harbour
Tags: sydney harbor, Sydney Harbour, Sydney weekends, this weekend in Sydney, walk, walking inner Sydney, Weekends in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

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.