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Purple jacaranda blossoms drape over benches and grass in a city park.

Sydney II

2017 · Australia

CountriesAustralia
Stages3

Route

Photographs (283)

Purple jacaranda blossoms drape over benches and grass in a city park.Packaged kangaroo sausages and steak sit beneath a special offer sign.Soft waves wash onto a wide golden beach beneath a blue sky.Turquoise water pools among rocky ledges with a beach and hills behind.Algae-covered rock ledges stretch out toward the deep blue ocean.A dark sandstone cliff overhangs algae-covered rocks and the beach beyond.Tide pools on the rock shelf sit in front of a beach and green hills.Green and brown algae cover rock ledges carved by tide pools.Waves crash against algae-covered rocks beside a sandy cove.A wave erupts into white spray above the algae-stained rocks.Vivid green seaweed blankets the flat coastal rock shelf.A clear green tidal pool ringed by barnacled stones and seaweed.Flat layered slabs hold green tidal pools across the platform.A close view of layered rock bands in the cliff face.Fine crosshatched lines are etched across a flat stone slab.A misty forested valley sits below towering layered cliffs.Layered forested ridgelines dissolve into thick cloud.Sandstone pillars stand sentinel over a misty valley.The three sandstone pillars face across a misty gorge.A tree-lined gorge falls away beneath a steep rock wall.Pale mist rises from the green forest filling the valley.A flat-topped sandstone mesa rises beyond the misty forest.A steep rocky cliff drops into a misty forested basin.A shaft of light falls across the misty forest gorge.

Journal Notes (3)
2017 Sydney II 3

General The last of the three days began on the beach and ended in the mountains, with a stop at a supermarket in between. The morning was spent on the sand and on the rock platforms: wide golden beaches with soft waves washing in, layers of sandstone ledges covered in green and …

2017 Sydney II 2

General The next day went south, along the coast road that runs from the city to the Illawarra. The route leaves the suburbs at the Royal National Park and then follows the escarpment on a road that is one of the great coastal drives of the country: cliffs on one side, the ocean …

2017 Sydney II 1

General The second stay in Sydney was a harbour holiday. The city is built around water in a way that no other Australian city manages, and after a few weeks in the desert the effect is almost disorienting: ferries run like buses, the beaches face the ocean within the city limits …