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
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.
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
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!
Another short walk around the Woolwich peninsular, this time on a rainy winter morning.
Some stunning houses.
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.
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.
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
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!)
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.
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.
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
By the Cooks River near Dulwich Hill
Breakfast at Shenkin at Erskinville. Great Israeli food.
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