Sunday, August 30, 2015

Grotto Point Lighthouse Walk with Les and Lori.



We saw Grotto Point Lighthouse from Middle Head and Lori suggested that we go there one day.
So here we are.



Videos have to be watched on this page.


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Looking across to Manly from Arabanoo Lookout, Balgowlah Heights.

Saw 2 out of the 3.

The North Head Quarantine Station is one of the oldest surviving quarantine
facilities in Australia. Between 1832 and 1984, thousands of people were
 quarantined at the station, isolated from their homes for an undefined period of
 time. More than 570 people died there.

Manly...........seven miles from Sydney and a thousand miles from care.
  (the slogan used in the 1940's)

Over looking Crater Cove to The Heads.

The construction of shacks began here as early as 1923 by fishermen.  In the
1930s they were occupied full time. The inhabitants were forced to leave in
1984, but since 1990 the seven shacks were repaired and maintained by a
 group of caretakers operating under instructions of the NPWS.


Crater Cove heritage shacks.


Crater Cove heritage shacks.

Crater Cove.

Looking over Hunters Bay to the city.

Aboriginal rock engraving of a fish.

Clock-wise from top right: Hardenbergia violacea,  Darwinia sp, Philotheca sp.,
and Pittosporum undulatum.

Spirit AUS21, coming in through the heads.

Spirit (AUS21), the only America’s Cup yachts in charter, in Australia.

Eastern Water Dragon.

Eastern Water Dragon.

Clock-wise from top right: Pimelea sp., Platylobium formosum,
 Epacris longiflora and Scaevola ramosissima. 

Grotto Point Light, also known as Port Jackson Entrance Range Front Light.
 Construction began in 1910 and the light was first lit on September 1, 1911.

"Sorry Les, but I can't let you in"

Coming home.

Who's going to be first back to the buoy.

Clock-wise from top right:  Lasiopetalum ferrugineum,  Olearia tomentosa (?),
Actinotus helianthi and Bossiaea ensata.

Les looks over Crater Cove.  (I like the tattoo)

Up front seems to be the best spot.

Ferries Passing.

Up.........and.........down.


A snippet of today (taken by mistake).



Sydney and the Eastern Suburbs from North Head.

The Third Quarantine Station Cemetery grew out of the need for an area to bury those who died as a result of the smallpox
epidemic of 1881. On this exposed, windswept and isolated headland 241 people were buried. These burials clearly represent
 the effect of the smallpox, bubonic plague and influenza epidemics on both incoming passengers and local Sydney residents
from the early 1880s to the mid-1920s.

The Third Quarantine Station Cemetery, North Head.

The Third Quarantine Station Cemetery.

Richard W. Smith, aged 48, was taken to the Quarantine station on Monday 2 April
 from Canterbury and died at 1.00pm on Thursday 5 April 1900 of bubonic plaque.
The Rev Allan Mcdougall officiated at the burial. This grave site is interesting due
  to the wood replacing the usual concrete surrounds.

Deep sands high on North Head.

Clock-wise from top right:  Grevillea speciosa, Grevillea buxifolia and
 Styphelia triflora.

Looking north over Long Reef to Avalon.

International College of Management  ( was originally St. Patrick’s Seminary).

International College of Management. This building originally was St. Patrick’s
Seminary. Construction of the building began in June 1885. Gothic in style with
Spanish flavour.


International College of Management  ( was originally St. Patrick’s Seminary).

International College of Management  ( was originally St. Patrick’s Seminary).


International College of Management  ( was originally St. Patrick’s Seminary).

Santa blockers fitted to the chimneys.    
    International College of Management  ( was originally St. Patrick’s Seminary).

International College of Management  ( was originally St. Patrick’s Seminary).

International College of Management  ( was originally St. Patrick’s Seminary).

Some of the building's features.

International College of Management  ( was originally St. Patrick’s Seminary).



Cameras:  Canon PowerShot SX60 HS and Sony DSC-W690

Saturday, August 29, 2015

HIDDEN – A Rookwood Sculpture Walk.




HIDDEN is an outdoor sculpture exhibition that takes place amongst the gardens and graves in one of the oldest sections of Australia's largest and most historic cemetery. Not in the same league as Sculptures By The Sea, but still interesting.
                                   I just take the photos, you can work out their interpretations.



Videos have to be watched on this page. 

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PLEASE NOTE:
Some concepts in this artwork may be viewed as politically or religiously sensitive.

1.    The Nature of Things

3.    Once Removed

5.     Alone Together

6.     Do Not Mistake Me

7.   Refraction

8.     Forever Together

9.    Buying Time

10.     Paradise

11.  Memory Forms

12.    Suburban folly #1

13.    Last Words.
 (you could lay down in the box and listen to the world go by, but it was too hot today)

14.   Fire

15.     Love Letter

16.       The Watch Tower

17.    High Horse
18.        Kate Andrews  -   Preserve Your Memories (They're All That's Left You)           (one of the winners)



19.     Interstellar Cloud


Interstellar Cloud


20.     Bush Memorial

21.   A Bunch of Flowers

22.    Remembrance Circle

23.   God.co


God.co
(you will speaker volume turned up)



24.      The Imaginarium: Sacred Vanitas

24.      The Imaginarium: Sacred Vanitas


25.     i-Scapegoat

26.     Eternity

27.      Truffles

28.     Ascend (Series: I, II and III)

29.     The Museum Of Childhood Memory

30.    Cooee

31.    I Can Only Imagine...

32.    I Just Want...

33.   Digging the Clay - Seeking Family 2015

34.    Yolo

35.   Stratum III

36.    Crystal Resonators.  
 ( you didn't have to lay down to hear the world blow by with this one)

37.    The Garden of Private Thinking #2

38.     Amanda Stuart  _  the year of the watersnake.   (one of the winners)


39   Blanket Fort

40   Memory

41.     A Cocktail of Sacrifice, Faith and Redemption.

42.     Safety Scare


Camera:  Canon PowerShot SX60 HS