Tunnel
Some say it’s the smell of stale urine, other claim it’s the coloured cellophane the locals put over the fluorescent lights, for me it’s the package of heavy rail overhead, bleak urban infrastructure and threat of the dark surrounds. What attracts you to this pedestrian tunnel?
Sunrise
I’m in the bush this morning! Well not quite. The is the top of a hill called Mount Steel and on the other side of the gum trees is the Moore Park Golf Course driving range. At my back is the Sydney City skyline. A crisp dawn ahead of another warm autumn day.
Bridge
The Coat Hanger, a Sydney icon. Silhouetted against a cool autumn dawn. No politics, no trolls… just a feeling of timeless serenity.
Angles and shadows
Sydney’s Overseas Passenger Terminal at Circular Quay was opened in 1960, built to handle the surge in migration and tourism. It now receives cruise ships and houses bars and restaurants, and offers some nice angles.
Beach
A grey start at Sydney’s Manly Beach, and while this looks typical for autumn, later today it will be atypical as the forecast is to get to 33.
Dawn and ocean
A ten second exposure flattened the waves and gave the clouds an eerie look. I’m at the southern end of Bondi Beach to take in the classic colours of a Sydney autumn dawn.
Alley
Sophia Lane is in my top three old dog leg lanes. And it has the added advantage of being in Sydney’s Surry Hills, so it conjures images of the razor gangs from a century ago.
Cemetery
Sydney’s Waverley Cemetery was established in 1877, often cited as one of the most beautiful in the world. Some famous are buried here, and on a cool morning, all the gravestones turn to greet the new day.
Bridge
A perfect Sydney autumn dawn. I’m in Barangaroo Reserve looking over the Walsh Bay warehouses and on to the Harbour Bridge. Serenity and solitude.
Beach early
Daylight saving finished overnight for participating states and territory in Australia, but this little bunny’s body clock went off at stupid o’clock. This is Sydney’s Clovelly Beach on an early morning under brooding skies.
Bakery
Back to a wet Sydney early morning. The bakery is not open yet, but the baker opens the door to let a cooling breeze in. They’ll put empty bread trays on the doorstep soon to let people know is too early for a loaf.
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Clear as a bell looking across Rozelle Bay at dawn to the skyline of Sydney City. Word is showers, but it’s a lovely day so far.
Apartments
It was a clear crisp morning as I arrived at Distillery Drive in Pyrmont. It got its name from a sugar refinery that was built here in the late 1800s, molasses made here was refined into rum and sent around Sydney via the harbour metres away. Now it’s the glamorous end of town.
Alley
While part of Gadigal lands, early colonials called this area Henrietta Town or Eastern Hill. It was officially named Darlinghurst in honour of Elizabeth Darling, the popular wife of Ralph Darling, Governor of NSW, 1825-1831. This particular look stems from the early 1900s.
Dawn
The only known remains of the Macquarie-era (Governor) harbour works still in existence in Sydney Harbour is the Man O’War Steps at Farm Cove. I’m standing on the original platform, the floating jetty is not from 1810, watching beautiful autumnal dawn colours.
I've only needed to use it once so far, and took the wrong path
Bridge
31 years ago, on December 3, the Glebe Island Bridge was opened, renamed the ANZAC Bridge three years later on Remembrance Day. I remember the tedium of the quant small swing bridge it replaced.
A warmer start today, charming clouds, 128 cables greet the dawn.
Cityscape
Called Tumbalong for millennia (which translates to place to find seafood) it was named Cockle Bay by the colonial settlers because of the middens left by the Gadigal people.
These days the sparkles don’t come from oyster shells.
A lovely cool morning and a clear dawn, last swim?
War Memorial
Sydney had some wild weather last night (waiting for the post sleep report from wife and child for Opera on the Harbour), but it is still and serene now at the ANZAC Memorial and Pool of Reflection at HydePark. A blanket of cloud overhead, but benign.
Tram
It feels not only wet but cold this morning. So it wasn’t the rumble of the tram, but rather my poor attire choice giving me shivers. At the far end of Devonshire Street was an early 19C colonial burial ground, now the site of Sydney’s Central Station.
Sydney Harbour dawn
I found myself at the Balmain East Ferry Wharf at just the right time to get glow of a perfect autumn dawn.
Kayaking
It’s not the fear of bull sharks, not the chance of an unwelcome encounter with a Sydney Harbour Ferry, not even the cost of a private kayak tour…. but I’ve never paddled Woolloomooloo Bay at dawn. Not sure why.
Terrace houses
Sydney’s Crown Street has one end in Woolloomooloo and the other in Surry Hills. It has many different modes along its length, this pocket is in Surry Hills has an old warehouse to the left and mixed businesses on the right. Sweet three story terraces.
Park
Mushroom
Today is damp again, but yesterday was a great autumn day, I headed north west of Sydney City to Ku-ring-gi National Park and walked the Mueller Track. Worked up a sweat, then headed to Coogee Beach for what may be the last swim of the season.
Cityscape
After more showers overnight, no need to water the garden. It had an autumnal feel this morning as I took in the Sydney City skyline from the heel of Rozelle Bay.
Dunny lane turned garden
I love in when the residents of the older Sydney inner city suburbs reclaim the dunny lanes (night soil lanes) and turn them into gardens. This one is in Darlinghurst.
Sydney sunrise
Rain overnight and a forecast for the same today, so I was pleasantly surprised to find a warm autumn day with only a hint of cloud. Three other things to note, the silhouettes of the Sydney Opera House, a harbour ferry heading to Rose Bay and a river cat about to dock.
Clouds and an Ibis
Rain overnight and more forecast to come, but a slight reprieve at dawn for an Ibis and I. Non threatening clouds over the duck pond at Sydney’s Centennial Park.
