Balls Head is on the northern side of Sydney Harbour at the site of an old quarry and brick pit. I took the photos in this post a number of years ago, and they will be included in the project While You Were Sleeping. While You Were Sleeping will be…
A few months ago we went to Kangaroo Valley. This is an area just to the south of Sydney, a little bit inland from Wollongong. It has the dubious honour of being one of the wettest areas of southern Australia. When we were there, in May, it was very humid…
In the vein of giving my photos a better and more searchable home than Instagram, I’m republishing these photos I took at the Grand Canyon walking track out of Blackheath in the Blue Mountains in June. This is a well-developed and well-maintained track that’s very popular with tourists and locals…
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In the nearby suburb of Killara, there is a gem of a park called Swain Gardens that not many people know about. In fact, I was reminded of its existence because I saw it on TikTok. If you think TikTok is only for rubbish dance videos, I urge you to…
A while ago, we took a guided tour inside the old Sydney GPO. Back in the 1800s, before the phone and the internet, the post office was the central focus point of communication. This is one of the oldest buildings in Sydney. The clock played a vital function because people…
Cockatoo Island, in Sydney Harbour, used to be Australia’s biggest ship yard. In the early half of last century, this is where navy and civilian ships were built and visiting ships repaired. The industrial operations were closed in the early 1990s, and the island lay abandoned for a number of…
Here are some pictures of spring flowers I’ve taken over the last few weeks in the Lane Cove National Park. They’re all common flowers around Sydney.
This is going to be the last post in this series. We went from Indian Canyon to Joshua Tree. Our hotel was in between those two, on the loooooong and very straight road that link the two and crosses the freeway at the ginormous wind farm (windmills still not doing…
The next day it was on to Palm Springs. I have to admit that this is one of the weirdest places I have ever visited, not necessarily in a good way. There were a number of reasons we stopped there. In the first place, we were getting close to the…
On the move again. We visited lookout at the chapel on the hill (Chapel of the Holy Cross) in Sedona. Wonder who lives in that crazy house down there. We came through the creepiest-ever place called Jerome. The building with the red window frames was actually a brothel. I think…
