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Kirribilli to Lavender Bay Walk

Blue hues of Lavender Bay are a sight to behold

This is one of the shortest walks in Sydney but also one of the most beautiful and picturesque.The ultimate reward for those who do the walk is that you get to spend some time lazing about atLavender Bay, where the blue hues of the water against the backdrop of the blue sky make this amagical place to be.

The walk starts at the Jeffrey Street, Kirribilli ferry station, which is a little more than five minutesby ferry from Circular Quay. It follows the foreshore of the harbour around Olympic Drive under theSydney Harbour Bridge - with facing views of the Sydney Opera House, Circular Quay and DawesPoint - to Luna Park and then on to Lavender Bay. You will notice a plaque in Olympic Drive (GPS co-ordinates Lat: -33.849688Long: 151.213092) that refers to the convict transport ship, the Surry. The plaque commemoratesthe arrival of the Surry at Sydney in July 1814 after an outbreak of typhus. The epidemic had killed36 convicts, together with the surgeon, First and Second Mates, boatswain, two seamen and fourof the guard. Thomas Raine, who had been the Third Mate, brought the Surry into Port Jackson.Afterwards, he became Captain of the Surry and settled in Sydney

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The foreshore path sweeps around the two 89-metre (292-foot) concrete pylons that support thebridge arch on the northern side of the harbour. The land formation here is called Milson Point andis named after James Milson, one of the first colonists granted land on the North Shore. Hesupplied the colony with produce from a farm on this site. The bridge's giant pylons are faced with 18,000 cubic metres (635,664 cubic feet) of granite thatwas quarried at Moruya on the NSW south coast. More than 200 Australian, Scottish, and Italianstonemasons and their families were housed at a temporary settlement at Moruya, where theyquarried, cut, dressed and numbered the blocks, which were then transported to Sydney on threespecially-built ships. Huge steel abutments are prominent at the base of the pylons. These are essential to support theloads from the arch and hold its span firmly in place. Oddly enough, the actual pylons have nostructural purpose but were included to provide a frame for the arch panels. Stranger still, thepylons were not part of the original design - they were added later to allay public fears about thebridge's structural integrity. Set into the sea wall on Olympic Drive at Milsons Point, directly under the bridge, is the bowsection of the Royal Australian Navy light cruiser HMAS Sydney. The bow's placement is a warmemorial to the sinking on 9th November, 1914 of the German raider "Emden" by HMAS Sydney.The ship's mast also serves as a memorial on Bradley's Head. Walking on you pass the North Sydney Olympic Pool, an Art Deco-styled Olympic-sized outdoorpool built on part of the Dorman Long workshops site following the completion of the HarbourBridge. The pool opened in 1936 and hosted swimming and diving events for the 1938 EmpireGames. Opposite the pool is the Milson Point ferry station, which is where families alight for Luna Park,Sydney's famous amusement park. The walking path continues on the boardwalk alongside Luna Park until it evolves into a bitumenpath. This path, flanked by high native grasses, skirts around the foreshores of Lavender Bay in anarea designated as Lavender Bay Parklands . This is a peaceful setting even though there is abackdrop of grotesque high-rise office towers and residential developments. Staggered among the vegetation on the sides of the walking path are small art works by Arthur'Art' Barton, the "Rembrandt of Luna Park". But the main attraction is undoubtedly the bay and the scenery here is breathtaking with vistas ofsmall yachts moored in blue waters under brilliant blue skies. Lavender Bay was named after acolorful character of the times, but it could easily have been name after the collusion occuringbetween the sky and the water. From deep in Lavender Bay you can look back and see how the Sydney Harbour Bridge links LunaPark on the northern side to Dawes Point and Walsh Bay on the southern side, with the luxury PierOne Hotel almost jutting up to the bridge. The foreshore walk mostly ends at the Lavender Bay wharf where there is a long jetty reaching outinto the bay. There are seats on the jetty and it's a wonderful place to sit and gaze at the bay andthe bridge and the harbour. The views from here are some of the most picturesque in Sydney. There is one more surprise in store at Lavender Bay. At the back of the walking path is a tunnel setinto a brick wall. Look through the tunnel and you will see to a set of steep stone stairs. Thesestairs take you up to Wendy's Secret Garden, a wonderful public garden carved into disusedrailway land by Wendy Whitely, the wife of the late Brett Whitely, one of Australia's best-knownartists. Ms Whitely, an artist in her own right, has had a lot of helpers along the way, and they have createda majestic shade-garden sanctuary for the people of Sydney; somewhere where you can walk andexplore or else just sit and laze away the time. Don't miss seeing this delightful garden!

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