We met at Jetty 4, Circular Quay, and headed (food) straight to (food) Caminetto (food) Italian Restaurant (food).
After (food) lunch we started our walk around The Rocks, Millers Point, Walsh Bay, Bangaroo and back to the Quay and onto our trains back home. A pleasant and informative 6 km walk was had by all.
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Pacific Explorer, Sydney.
4 legged busker, Circular Quay.
Pigeon Man
ActionAid Australia. Helping women and girls fight to end poverty and injustice.
Box Brownie moment. 1890's at the Former Rocks Police Station.
Shadows
From Bunker's Hill, Gloucester Walk. Metcalfe Bond Stores, constructed: 1912-1916.
Bell tower of The Australian Steam Navigation Building, constructed in 1884.
Pacific Explorer in Sydney.
The Sirius Building, designed in 1978-1979 by architect Tao Gofers.
The Sirius Building, designed in 1978-1979 by architect Tao Gofers.
'Nothingness' by artist Will Coles.
The dove on Hicksons Steps, Dawes Point / Pier One.
A barrier / trap to stop rats climbing the sandstone wall at Hicksons Steps, Dawes Point.
Walsh Bay
'Bower' by Cave Urban at Barangaroo.
Don't destroy Miller's Point.
Don't destroy Miller's Point.
One International Towers at Watermans Quay and Barangaroo.
Argyle Lane.
Please, let me out, Argyle Lane.
Argyle Lane.
'Stop the theft - Save Millers Point'
High St, Millers Point.
High St, Millers Point.
High St, Millers Point.
High St, Millers Point.
Barangaroo to ANZAC Bridge.
'Older Women's Network'
I'm not saying anything. Lower Fort St.
'I Came, I Saw....I Sold It Off '
Then NSW Premier, Mike Baird (things haven'y changed).
Paint some colour in your world. 3 Cambridge St, The Rocks.
On tour in Cambridge St, The Rocks.
Cambridge St, The Rocks. (PbL)
Over the back fence, Cambridge St, The Rocks.
‘Cumberland / Gloucester Streets Archaeological Site’, also known as ‘The Big Dig’.
From Gloucester St, The Rocks.
From Gloucester St, The Rocks.
Gloucester St, The Rocks.
Gloucester St.
View from Longs Lane, The Rocks.
Lamp in Longs Lane.
See the dragon fly?
The Quay from inside the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Lynn and I had a day looking around the old Glebe Island Bridge, Waterfront Park, Pirrama Park, Jones Bay Wharf, all in Johnstons Bay and then the Sydney Fish Markets.
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View from the Sydney Boathouse, Rozelle Bay.
In the distance.
Sydney Boathouse
'Ichi Ban', Sydney Boathouse.
Sydney Boathouse
Ball for boats to bounce off.
Sydney Heritage Fleet Docks & Workshop.
The new ANZAC Bridge overlooks the western approach to the old Glebe Island Bridge.
The Glebe Island concrete grain (wheat) silos, operated from 1921 to 1990.
Underpass under the approaches to the old bridge.
Stairway to nowhere.
Old drill holes.
Not accessible.
From one bridge, to another.
White Bay Power Station was the longest serving of Sydney's metropolitan power stations.
The coal-powered station became fully operational from 1917 and ceased production on Christmas Day 1983.
The Glebe Island Bridge was an electrically operated swing bridge opened on 1 July 1903.
The Glebe Island Bridge was an electrically operated swing bridge opened on 1 July 1903.
Remains of the old wharves.
We had lunch at table 19.
Sydney water-police headquarters.
In the past.
And back to the present.
Stairs to Giba Park.
Mee-Tu (me too)
A Port Jackson Fig growing on a pylon out in the bay.
The new dwarfs the old.
My old school (left) until I was 8. Boys, from our school, use to throw rocks at
the children in the Catholic School across the road (right).
The sculpture 'Tied to Tide' is an 'aquatic instrument', created by
Jennifer Turpin & Michaelie Crawford, that moves by the action of the waves and tides.
'Tied to Tide'
The sculpture 'Tied to Tide' is an 'aquatic instrument', created by
Jennifer Turpin & Michaelie Crawford, that moves by the action of the waves and tides.
Barangaroo and the Sydney Harbour Bridge (oh, and Lynn).
The boys in blue (water-police) keeping our waterways safe.
You would need a lot of sovereigns to buy this Sovereign.
Crown Sydney - Sydney's six-star luxury hotel resort at Barangaroo (in the background ) going up.
We'd probably have to sell our house just to pay the mooring fees.
Converted warehouse at Jones Bay Wharf.
Jones Bay Wharf.
Outside looking in.
New Years Eve leftovers.
Channel 7 (Seven) is based in a converted warehouse at Jones Bay Wharf.
Red and blue makes if safe for you
I don't think that metal flap will stop much from entering the drain.
I didn't know the password.
They may well have been.
Ninnoo and Tony are in love.
These spheres were digesters used in the old CSR (Colonial Sugar Refinery) to produce chipboard.
'Metamorphosis' The sculpture is based on the simple observation that the
transformation taking place at Jacksons Landing reflects our changing perceptions about the landscape.
Anton James 2007
Must be something in there to eat. (Common Mynah)
ANZAC Bridge and Silos.
ANZAC Bridge.
ANZAC Bridge.
Spider's web.
ANZAC Bridg
Struggling to Earth. Fig tree roots on rock-face.
Skate-boarder.
ANZAC Bridge from the Fish Markets.
At the Sydney Fish Markets.
At the Sydney Fish Markets.
Please don't eat me.
ANZAC Bridge, from the Sydney Fish Markets.
Bridge in a vase.
The train was packed coming home.
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