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January 7, 2024January 7, 2024

Hideous Sydney, 2023

February & June 2023

Disproportionately featuring Crown Tower.

A photograph just before dawn of Darling Island and Barangaroo, with the Barangaroo skyscrapers still lit for the night, and pink and purple clouds striped over the sky

A photograph of the Barangaroo skyscrapers lit yellow by the last of the sun, with Darling Island already in the dark

Photograph of a lone cyclist ascending Anzac Bridge cyclepath from the east, in front of the bridge tower and cables and the setting sun

Photograph of Iron Cove before dawn, with pink clouds behind the cityscape and a single foursome doing rowing training

Photograph of Iron Cove before dawn, with pink clouds behind the cityscape and a single twosome doing rowing training accompanied by a coaching boat

September 27, 2021September 27, 2021

Lockdown sunsets

August 2021

Watching the sun set from within my Sydney travel boundary somehow became a symbol of interstate rivalry. May it return to coffee soon.

Previously: Milk Beach.

All photos.

September 20, 2021September 27, 2021

Starting 5pm Friday July 9, we could only travel within 10km of your home for exercise/recreation in Sydney. I’m not generally a fan of bright-siding these restrictions (“my workaholic husband has ditched the corporate rat race, any chance we could stick with widespread house arrest, it’s been just great for his blood pressure?”) but it does inspire a certain amount of scouring one’s vicinity for places to be. The ocean beaches are all slightly more than 10km as the crow flies from me, but some of the harbour beaches such as Milk Beach remained accessible.

I walked with a friend there during daytime and after that decided that a family excursion at sunset was called for:

Sydney city, late afternoon, from Milk Beach

Last light off Sydney City, from Milk Beach

Sydney City silhouette after sunset, from Milk Beach

The other reason to frantically find family excursions, as I told my family gloomily, was in case the rules got stricter, which indeed they did, a 5km radius from August 16. So the evening of August 15 we traipsed out once more to farewell Milk Beach for the time being, not, seemingly, the only ones:

All photos.

December 21, 2020December 18, 2020

Not at work

July 2019

November 29, 2019December 2, 2019

New Year’s Day 2019, midnight fireworks, Sydney Harbour

Fireworks, midnight, New Year's Day 2019, Sydney

Fireworks over Cockatoo Island, midnight, New Year's Day 2019, Sydney

All photos.

November 26, 2019November 24, 2019

New Year’s Eve 2018 Fireworks, Sydney Harbour, 9pm

First firework, 9pm, New Year's Eve 2018, Sydney

Fireworks, 9pm, New Year's Eve 2018, Sydney

All photos.

October 8, 2019October 7, 2019

Storm over Sydney, New Year’s Eve 2018

The dramatic storm that ended 2018 by soaking most of the people who’d been waiting 12 hours for a fireworks show was not forecast, but it also wasn’t entirely unheralded. Here’s the sky 2 hours before it struck:

Storm gathers over Sydney, New Year's Eve 2018

However, it wasn’t until later that this was heralded on the radar:

Storm building over Sydney, New Years Eve 2018

I went to the north of the island to see if I could see the storm cell; hearing a security guard’s radio piping up about moving all guests into shelter. Promising! I was not disappointed:

Storm cell over Hunter's Hill, New Year's Eve 2018

I hurried back; as I did the loudspeakers started to call everyone into the old machinerary sheds due to a “dangerous storm”; we were probably some of the few New Year’s Eve revellers around the harbour who could take shelter that evening.

I made it before the rain did. However, I wasn’t quite the last one in: