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A clear saltwater pool sits in the rock while the ocean crashes against the ledge beyond.

Sydney I

2017 · Australia

CountriesAustralia
Stages5

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Photographs (368)

A sprawling sandy beach curves beside turquoise surf toward a low suburb skyline.White surf breaks across turquoise water as surfers wait off a sandy beach concourse.Two surfers ride a rolling turquoise wave line out on the open blue ocean.A clear saltwater pool sits in the rock while the ocean crashes against the ledge beyond.A hollowed sandstone rock stands by the deep blue ocean as surf crashes on the rocky shore.A large palm tree shades a lush garden of coastal shrubs and tussock grass below an apartment.Turquoise waves lap toward the houses on the hillside above the beach.White surf crashes over the flat rock platforms of a coastal headland.Foaming waves wash over rock shelves beneath the clifftop houses.Surfers sit in the lineup as big swell rolls toward the headland.Visitors stand on the flat rocks while waves blast foam around them.Walkers follow the path along the rocky cliff above the crashing waves.Lines of surf swell toward the beach beneath the clifftop homes.A near-empty sandy cove sits below the homes on the rocky cliff.People play volleyball on the sand beneath breaking waves at Tamarama beach.White surf crashes against the rocks of a curved coastal headland.Surf meets sand beneath apartment blocks climbing the headland.Swimmers dot the surf in a sheltered bay below a cliff-top suburb.Swimmers glide in a rocky tidal pool beside a busy beach.Crashing surf flings spray against a towering, layered sandstone cliff.Headstones and a chapel stand on a green cliff above the ocean.An empty bench faces the ocean from a grassy clifftop.A fenced seawater pool sits beneath a park and cafe deck.Waves wash over seaweed-strewn sand beside rocky cliffs.

Journal Notes (5)
2017 Sydney I 5

General The fifth day was given to the beaches, which on this coast means a walk rather than a swim. The bus to Bondi took half an hour, the beach was already busy at nine in the morning, and the surf was running in clean lines with a crowd of surfers waiting in the water. The sa …

2017 Sydney I 4

General The fourth day was spent on foot in the city and in the gardens beside it. The walk began in the streets of the central business district, where the towers stand close together and the shade between them is a relief, and continued past bronze statues on their pedestals: a …

2017 Sydney I 3

General The third day went west, to the mountains. The train or the road leaves the city through the suburbs, crosses the flat ground of the Cumberland Plain, and then begins to climb the escarpment at a place where the highway and the railway run side by side up the slope. Withi …

2017 Sydney I 2

General The second day took the bus to the eastern end of the harbour and spent the whole of it on the cliffs. Watsons Bay is the last suburb before the ocean, a small settlement of houses, a park, a few restaurants and a wharf, and from the wharf the land rises to a ridge of san …

2017 Sydney I 1

General The journey to Australia began with two flights and a day that did not exist. Leaving Europe in the morning and arriving in Sydney the following evening means losing time rather than passing it, and the body has no system for the experience: the light through the window o …