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Birchgrove to East Balmain

Posted: April 30, 2016 in Inner West, Sydney Harbour, Walking
Tags: 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.

Canada Bay to Mortlake

Posted: March 25, 2016 in bicycle, Sydney Harbour
Tags: inner west, Sydney Harbour, Sydney weekends, Things to do in Sydney, weekend, Weekends in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

A beautiful afternoon for a bay-side walk.

Today, Easter Friday, we walked from Canada Bay along the waterfont, through Cabarita to Mortlake, near the car ferry across the river to Putney.

We love walking through areas where the home owners don’t own the water; makes for a much nicer walk 🙂

A beautiful path virtually the whole way.

The end of Durham St, Canada Bay. The start of today’s path

Bayview Park, near Massey Park Golf Course

Looking west towards Breakfast Point

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.

This week’s progress

Dubois St Longuville. Beautiful homes fronting the river

The sand was a little soft! And got a LOT softer!

Arabella St Longuville. Views to the city 🙂

Northwood Road

Looking across the bay to Woolwich (Marist Sisters College)

Lovely park near Kelly’s Esplanade, near Northwood Ferry wharf

Spectacular views to the city from Arabella St (and very cool front and garage doors!)

Spectacular views to the city from Arabella St

Drummoyne – East of Gladesville Bridge

Posted: March 4, 2016 in Sydney Harbour
Tags: 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

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

Drummoyne Oval

Drummoyne Oval. Swans | Giants pre-season. Cheap entry 😉

Waverton to Milsons Point

Posted: February 29, 2016 in Sydney Harbour
Tags: 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.

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Beautiful Harbour views along the path at Balls Head Reserve

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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 Harbour
Tags: 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 50 ~ X is for Xenophobia

Posted: December 7, 2015 in Walking
Tags: 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.

cronulla_wideweb__470x313,0 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 48 ~ V is for Vintage

Posted: November 30, 2015 in Inner West, Markets
Tags: antique, breakfast, cafe, Sydney, Sydney weekends, Things to do in Sydney, vintage, what to do in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

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There’s a fine line between vintage and crap – it would seem there are plenty of people who don’t know the difference.

There’s also a MASSIVE difference between vintage/second hand/old//crap/broken and what constitutes a bargain!

$hit! I’m never throwing anything out again EVER!

Deliciopus start to the day at https://www.facebook.com/SubStationCafe, an old electrical substation transformed into a cafe with a snug interior and a cute courtyard. We enjoyed a delicious start to the day at The Substation Cafe , an old electrical substation transformed into a cafe with a snug interior and a cute courtyard. Mediterranean influenced food, great coffee, friendly staff, good service.

We’ll be back 🙂

We went for a walk to the Mitchell Road Antique and Design Centre. It’s a warehouse packed with vintage and retro stuff – not really antiques. It appears to be divided into sections – I imagine that each section is sub-let to a different stall-holder.

This was followed by a short stroll to Lunatiques. Love the name 🙂
Ditto.

I was like a trip back to our grandparents’. We found ourselves at every turn saying either

Oh, look at that, I used to have these (ie remember those roller skates that laced up and the length was adjustable via a wingnut under the sole?)
or
Remember Gran used to have these? (cue the laminated kitchen table) or
Remember throwing that away/giving that to Vinnies?What a trip down memory lane!

Holy Crap! This little anvil, about the size of a rolled up sleeping bag – $1200! What would the one i have in the back yard be worth? No wonder the boys argue about who gets it when i die!!

Desk made from an aeroplane wing, anyone?

Week 46 ~ T is for a Train ride

Posted: November 15, 2015 in Transport
Tags: Sydney weekends, this weekend in Sydney, Weekends in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

Gotta love Sydney’s Opal cards – $2.50 travel all day on a Sunday.

We headed to Hawkesbury River – the train station near Brooklyn just where the road to Gosford crosses the Hawkesbury River.

We had breakfast at the Tuckshop cafe and then went for a walk around Brooklyn.

We had no idea there was so much history there…

Governor Philip was exploring the area within months of arriving in Sydney in 1788
The rail bridge was the final piece in the Trans Continental Railway. Originally built in 1889, it linked Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane and was a major engineering feat at the time.
There was an anti aircraft station set up there to protect the rail bridge from any Japanese activity in WWII

It’s also where RW Corkery, the company our daughter Lauren works for in Orange, has an office, so good to see where she works from time to time and put a face to the name.

The train was on time – a good start to the morning!

Brooklyn train station

Another coffee at the marina before we left.

Week 44 ~ R is for a Ride at Rhodes

Posted: November 15, 2015 in bicycle
Tags: bicycle, cycle, Sydney weekends, this weekend in Sydney, Weekends in Sydney, What to do in Sydney this weekend

Threatening skies didn’t deter us from going for a bicycle ride near where we live at Rhodes.

Near where Sydney’s Olympics were staged in 2000, Rhodes was a very industrial area, but proximity to the city, access to trains and being close to the Olympic precinct has seen it undergo a transformation over the past few years into a new urban centre with thousands of people housed in a stack of high rise towers.

Beside the water there’s a terrific wide, flat path for cyclists and walkers alike.

We joined the path at Meadowbank, ride over the old railway bridge down to the Olympic site.

Unfortunately the weather beat us and after sheltering a few times in picnic shelters and under a new pedestrian bridge we made it back to the car without too much drama.

A great ride. We’ll do this again 🙂

Love the way they have kept the old rail bridge over the Parramatta River at Meadowbank and preserved it for cyclists and pedestrians.

Great path beside the river. Don’t drink the water… yet! But it’s getting cleaner.

Waiting out the worst of the downpour.

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Birchgrove to East Balmain

Canada Bay to Mortlake

Longueville / Northwood

Drummoyne – East of Gladesville Bridge

Waverton to Milsons Point

Parramatta ~ Harris Park Heritage Walk

Week 50 ~ X is for Xenophobia

Week 48 ~ V is for Vintage

Week 46 ~ T is for a Train ride

Week 44 ~ R is for a Ride at Rhodes