"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move." RLS
Victoria Park is a small, nine hectare, triangular park nestled between the busy Parramatta and City Roads and the University of Sydney. Given its small size and the constant traffic on the adjacent roads I imagined it might be noisy and not at all peaceful. This is not so, probably because it is set at a level slightly lower than the roads, though I am no expert on acoustics. Continue reading “Victoria Park”
The University of Sydney Art Gallery has in excess of 7,000 artworks by Australian, European and Asian artists, collected since 1850. This collection includes paintings, watercolours, drawings, textiles, sculptures and much more. Continue reading “University Art Gallery – Lost for Words”
What a great and unexpected treasure that I more or less stumbled upon here.
The Nicholson Antiquity Museum in the University of Sydney has the largest collection of antiquities in the Southern Hemisphere (don’t get over excited, it’s still a small museum viewable in detail in an hour). While having no world famous pieces it has quite a range of things tastily displayed and labelled and, as such, is well worth a visit. Continue reading “University of Sydney – Nicholson Museum”
The first thing I must say about this small but wonderful natural history museum is that it on the top floor of the Macleay Building on Science Road and you must enter the building at the end furthest away from the University of Sydney’s Great Hall (where you will see a sign for the museum) and not the other end as I did, only to have to clamber back down three flights of stairs and up them again at the correct end of the building. Continue reading “Macleay Museum – University of Sydney”
I had not planned on visiting the University of Sydney but one Sunday morning I was having a look around Victoria Park before heading into the suburb of Glebe to do a bit of exploring when I noticed the clock tower of the university from the park and decided to go up and have a quick look at the building. Continue reading “University of Sydney”
In 1820 the Old Sydney Burial Ground was closed and in 1867 Devonshire Street Cemetery was also closed, though some burials did occur there after that date. Both cemeteries were deemed full. Continue reading “Mortuary Station”
The process of gentrification of the small inner city suburb of Chippendale is well underway. Formerly a very undesirable disease and crime ridden industrial suburb it has, since the mid 2000s, been spruced up. Continue reading “Chippendale Market – New and Trendy”
Canberra has four main sources of water and consequentially four dams. Three of these the Cotter, Bendora and Corin Dams are on the Cotter River, itself little more than a mountain stream, which flows through the western part of Namadgi National Park. Bendora and Corin (the subject of this review) Dams are within the National Park. Continue reading “Corin Dam – Namadgi”
The Square Rock walk in Namadgi National Park is a 9kms return walk from the start at Square Rock car park on Corin Rd, just past the Corin Forest Mountain Retreat, or 10kms if you include a easy 500m side-trip to the Orroral Valley Lookout, as we did. Continue reading “Square Rock Walk – Namadgi”
Gibraltar Falls, one of the highest in the Australian Capital Territory, is a 50m high set of cascading falls in the northern part of Namadgi National Park, best combined with a visit to Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve rather than other parts of Namadgi, due to logistics of getting there. Continue reading “Gibraltar Falls”
The Rambling Wombat 