3.2.1   

I started just under Anzac Bridge, coming down Quarry Master Street. 

Bus 443 and 501 takes you to Harris and Miller Street, also the Light Rail stops there. 

And right there is the Fish Market. 

                            

It is great fun having a meal 

at the Fish Market, however it is not cheap there.   

Watching the morning fishermen trading session is fantastic, but you have to get up real early for that.

3.2.2  

From the Fish Market on one has to walk 

along Pyrmont Bridge Rd, opposite Wentworth Park for a short distance. 

There are derelict  industrial sites with rusty machinery. 

Turning into Taylor St and walking past the Secondary College. Then at the Rowing Club one is back at the water’s edge with great harbour views. 

The Glebe foreshore has recently been developed with nice parkland, foreshore walks and modern apartments.

Among the trees are still some beautiful old houses.

The old ‘Bellevue’, a 1890s historic home was going to be demolished in 1970s by developers, but local residents’ protest saved it. 

Restored now it is used as a  cafe. 

At this spot the view of Anzac Bridge is superb. 

If 1 hour walk is enough for you today, a little along Leichhardt St and you get to Glebe Point Rd and from here busses go back to the city . 

This point separates Blackwattle Bay and Rozelle Bay, but the fore-shore park continues. Remnants of old factory machinery are still scattered along the way making the walk even more interesting. 

3.2.3   

More new apartments along Rozelle Bay.

 In Bicentennial Park, where Glebe Point Rd ends, is a huge old fig tree.

Even some mangroves got established once the old ‘noxious industries’ like slaughter houses, tanneries, timber yards were removed. 

When we lived for a short time in Glebe in the early 60s, we used to buy fish and chips, and eating it in the park we watched huge timber logs floating in the water.

Soon after crossing Johnstons Creek one has to walk again for few hundred metres along streets. 

On the harbour side of The Crescent are more small industrial sites, most of them looking like being in the process to be demolished. 

                                                                            

On the other side of The Crescent is a nice mural. 

From here a bus and the Light Rail too goes back to the city. 

Turning into the busy Western Distributer, and then into James Craig Rd the harbour is busier again. 

Some big pleasure crafts and tour boats are moored there and the office of the Maritime Services is here too.

James Craig Rd is partially blocked off, but a parallel road takes you right under the northern point of the Anzac Bridge.

Some steps lead to a lookout 

just next to the monument 

of the other Anzac Soldier. 

The road does not continue and I had to go on under the bridge to get onto the footpath leading to the next bus stop on Victoria Rd.

And here ends todays walk, a walk a bit longer than anticipated, however it was very enjoyable.

   Harbour Walk 3.1

        JONES BAY -  JOHNSTONS BAY                                                  

         

March 2012

approximately 2km 

1 hours 

Along this  foreshore are some nice parks, old harbour facilities, new developments, and best of all some fantastic harbour views.

                      

3.1.1  

Starting from Pirrama Road, where the last walk ended, I will continue along Johnstons Bay, along the southern side of it.

There on Pirrama Road, opposite Wharf 20 is a lift taking you up to a nice little park with a great view. I do like street lift! Also further on are steps leading to this park with a view.

From here you can overlook Pyrmont Point Park, see across Balmain and in the distance Millers Point  and further on the Harbour Bridge.

In the 1990s Pyrmont Point was an industrial site and dismantled crane parts were stored there. The artwork here which moves with the wind and swell reminds me of this bygone time. 

Now this is such a nice foreshore harbour park. 

Each year on Australia Day 

the ‘Jazz on the Harbour’ festival is staged here 

and on that day Johnstons Bay, once a very busy container terminal is filled again with boats, pleasure boats. 

3.1.2
   Along the Pyrmont side of Johnstons Bay are many new residential developments.

With lots of open green space in between it is quite pleasant to stroll along.

                                  

Some of the old buildings are kept and transformed into modern apartments and offices. 

Around the corner and there is Anzac Bridge.

Anzac Bridge replaced the other opening swing-span bridges, the Glebe Island Bridge.

Anzac Bride in 1994, on year before completion.

 This could be the end of my walk today: from Pyrmont Bridge to Anzac Bridge. 

It would not be far to the next bus stop, but that bus would take me back to the city. 

If I walk across the bridge I can catch a bus from Victoria Road directly home. 

And that way I can look at the old Glebe Island Bridge close up.

At the northern end of the bridge on each side are statues of Anzac soldier, one from Australia and one from New Zealand.

It was a long walk, but very interesting and pleasant.

3.1.3

Anzac Bridge replaced the other old opening swing-span bridges, the Glebe Island Bridge.

The new bridge was completed in 1995.

I walked up to the old bridge as close as I could get.  

                         

And then I decided to walk on and across Anzac Bridge.

                  

That way I could look at the old Glebe Island Bridge derictly below.

At the northern end of the bridge on each side are statues of Anzac soldier, one from Australia and one from New Zealand.

This was not a long walk. 
Still, after crossing Anzac Bridge and walking all along to the next bus stop
on Victoria Road I had enough for the day. 
Anyway a new part of the harbour would begin with the next walk.