Barangaroo walk

A new pedestrian walkway has opened up from Wynyard train station to the new Sydney waterfront precinct. Named Barangaroo - after the wife of another famous Aboriginal Bennelong.

Liberty Place

good place for lunch

Oddfellows War Memorial

Stands alone now big trees removed from above. At the start of my favourite walk to the harbour.

Winter Sunrise Sydney Harbour

This was taken yesterday morning at sunrise at Bennelong Point. The rain held off but only had my phone camera, my usual Canon s100 is in for repair.

Tasmania - a great holiday destination

Arrived at Australia's most southern capital city ... Only an hour an a half flight away is Hobart, capital of Tasmania.

Australian War Memorial Canberra 7 FINAL

The setting sunlight over the AWM and parts of the HMAS Brisbane. Back to Sydney tomorrow.

Australian War Memorial Canberra 6

The gun mount of the HMAS Brisbane outside the AWM. HMAS Brisbane (1966) was the second vessel of that name to serve in the Royal Australian Navy. She was the third of the RAN's American-built "Charles F. Adams" class guided-missiles destroyers. Brisbane undertook two tours of duty with the United States Seventh Fleet off Vietnam, in 1969 and again in 1971, and was the last ship of the RAN to serve there.

Australian War Memorial Canberra 5

The setting sun and the big Amiens gun, captured WW1. ‘To assist Australians to remember, interpret and understand the Australian experience of war and its enduring impact on Australian society’. This is the mission of the Australian War Memorial.

Australian War Memorial Canberra 3

Afternoon light. After the 1939-1945 war, the charter of the Memorial was extended to encompass all wars in which Australians have died. Today, the Memorial’s collection is divided into the following areas: Art (the Memorial has an extensive art collection), Military Heraldry and Technology, (including flags, uniforms, guns, aeroplanes and so on), Photo Sound and Film, and Printed and Written Records.

Australian War Memorial Canberra Simpson and his Donkey

Outside the AWM Canberra is this statue of Simpson and his Donkey. John "Jack" Simpson Kirkpatrick (6 July 1892 – 19 May 1915), who served under the name John Simpson, was a stretcher bearer with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) during the Gallipoli Campaign in World War I. After landing at Anzac Cove on 25 April 1915, he obtained a donkey and began carrying wounded British Empire soldiers from the frontline to the beach, for evacuation. He continued this work for three and a half weeks, often under fire, until he was killed. Simpson and his Donkey are a key part of the "Anzac legend". Wiki

Australian War Memorial Canberra Entrance

The path to the Australian War Memorial Canberra. Over the next seven days I will be taking you around the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. I visit there on my afternoon walk around Canberra. This is one of my favourite places, especially after all the crowds have gone. "The Australian War Memorial is unique among the world’s war memorials, because it is both a collection and a building and the building is both a museum and a shrine. The Memorial was founded to commemorate the 60,000 Australians who died in the 1914-1918 war and to tell the story of Australians in war. Its foundation stone was laid on ANZAC Day 1919, but work on the building was delayed by the Depression and the Second World War and it was not opened until Armistice Day 1941." anzacday.org.au

Turimetta Headland

Kings Cross Art

Some blackboard graffiti on a temporary hoarding in Kings Cross.

Sydney Half Marathon

Over 10000 runner race on May 20 in this event. 21.1km around Sydney's foreshore.

Barrenjoey Lighthouse Walk 11

View across Pittwater as I finish my walk.

Barrenjoey Lighthouse Walk 10

As I walked back along the beach these boys were heading off across Pittwater, there are some isolated communities there; Coasters Retreat, Mackerel Beach and Lovett's Bay.
Which 2 Aussie legends used to live at Lovett's?

Barrenjoey Lighthouse Walk 9

On the way back down I met a fellow shutterbug, he had much better gear, even though it was Canon and not Nikon.

Barrenjoey Lighthouse Walk 8

Time to head back down smugglers track past the keepers cottage, no longer occupied.

Barrenjoey Lighthouse Walk 7

Some of the plants around the lighthouse, anyone know what this is?



This is the lonely grave next to the lighthouse. It is the grave of the first keeper George Mulhall, struck by lightning when he went outside to get some firewood. His son, the next keeper was also struck in later years but not fatally.

Barrenjoey Lighthouse Walk 6

Made from local sandstone, this is the third lighthouse on this site. Here is the copper earth to take those lightning strikes to ground. Tomorrow is a sad story about one of those strikes.


View from the top looking South to the ritzy suburb of Palm Beach.