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The Bald Rock

Posted: March 27, 2017 in Bars, Drinking at the local hotel, Inner West
Tags: Beer, Hotel, olympics, Things to do in Sydney, this weekend in Sydney, Weekends in Sydney, what to do in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

The Bald Rock Hotel is an historic pub in the suburb of Rozelle, down near White Bay in the shadow of the Anzac Bridge in the Inner West of Sydney.

Wikipedia says that Bald Rock was originally a suburb within Balmain.

The hotel was built in 1876 and was a lot closer to the harbour when first built; subsequent landfill means it’s now a bit further from the water.

The Bald Rock is sandstone inside and out and is heritage-listed.

It retains much character and is a favourite of locals in an area that used to have a pub on nearly every corner but has in this last generation become more gentrified and where community gardens and parks now flourish.

Huntley’s Cove/Point to Gladesville

Posted: September 17, 2016 in Inner West, Sydney Harbour, Walking
Tags: Sydney, sydney harbor, Sydney Harbour, Sydney weekends, Things to do in Sydney, this weekend in Sydney, walk, weekend, Weekends in Sydney, what to do in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

ANOTHER gorgeous Sydney spring day for a walk along another part of the Parramatta River… we’ve walked through the grounds of the old Gladesville Hospital before, but not this year.
Great to catch up with son Matt, who lives in Gladesville, for a coffee while we were there 🙂

Where Gladesville and Tarban Creek Bridges meet.

Looking from Banjo Patterson’s grandmothers cottage at Gladesville (now a restaurant) across the SHORE school’s rowing shed.

Banjo Patterson’s grandmothers cottage at Gladesville (now a restaurant)

The old (former) Henley Baths

The Nestle factory site (in the distance on the right) looking to the left to Chiswick

Gladesville Bridge

Site of the old Gladesville Bridge

Love it… gonna copy this!

Just east of Tarban Creek and Gladesville Bridges… what a hidden little pocket.

Mortlake to Rhodes

Posted: September 11, 2016 in Inner West, Sydney Harbour, Walking
Tags: inner west, Sydney, sydney harbor, Sydney Harbour, Sydney weekends, Things to do in Sydney, this weekend in Sydney, walk, weekends, Weekends in Sydney, what to do in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

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

Canterbury to Rookwood

Posted: August 22, 2016 in bicycle, Walking
Tags: cycle, cycleway, Things to do in Sydney, this weekend in Sydney, walking inner Sydney, Weekends in Sydney, what to do in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

A beautiful, late winter’s day; a bike ride along the cycleway beside the Cooks River from Canterbury north to Rookwood, towards Homebush Olympics site, and back.

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But seriously, fishing in this pretty polluted river? Hope he doesn’t have a seafood restaurant!

Greenwich to Northwood

Posted: July 30, 2016 in Sydney Harbour
Tags: Sydney, sydney harbor, Sydney Harbour, Sydney weekends, Things to do in Sydney, this weekend in Sydney, walking inner Sydney, weekend, Weekends in Sydney, what to do in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

An early start before a busy weekend with things to do, places to be and people to see.

A short walk along through some streets and bush tracks, no waterfront.

We are definitely making progress!

A really pretty, beautifully maintained, walk through the bush from the end of Ford St to Bob Campbell Oval

Love this tree root.

Looking across to Woolwich

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

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

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

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.