As I mentioned last week, we are trying to walk all of the harbour so, as we’ve covered from North Sydney to Cremorne Point and Taronga Zoo to Middle Head before then we though we’d fill in a gap of Cremorne Point to Taronga Zoo. It makes sense if you have OCD1 yourself.
Shorter by 1.5km this time. We cheated at the start. We had a plan of where we wanted to walk from and too but there was no easy way to get to the start without a car as no buses went there and to get the ferry there would’ve taken a good few hours. So, we jumped in a taxi. Whatever.
Cremorne Point is where we spent New Year’s Eve with Nicky and her friend in 2008/9. A very good vantage point for the bridge fireworks. It was nice to see it again in daylight though without the bottles, food and people lying on the ground.
The walk took us around Mosman Bay and past several ferry terminals, not sure how many are still in use. This part was very pleasant. It got a bit annoying when we had to cut across to Sirius Cove. It seems that you can’t continue around the foreshore to it so you have to head up pretty steep roads to the middle and then down a series of steps to get to the cove. Once again, not great with Roz’s knee.
The cove is right next to Taronga Zoo and our walk took us beside the back wall with an electrified fence. I hoped we’d get to look in at the behind-the-scenes action like the lions playing poker with the zebras but there was nothing to be seen. The best scene is very close to here though and that is just at the tip of the cove where you can look back at the city and the Bridge just visible over Bradleys Head Lighthouse. When we were there a cruise ship was leaving. It was big. As they all are.
- or, CDO as I prefer to put the letters in alphabetical order [↩]
