Best Kept Secrets
Where in North Sydney do you find the best view, the best picnic spot, the best walking track, the best entertainment, the best place to eat or shop…. Are you willing to share the secret? The rest of North Sydney would love to know.
I’m from Melbourne but adore the North Sydney LGA more than anywhere else in Sydney (Bondi-Maroubra walk is second for those of you playing at home). Kirribilli/Milson’s Point is just divine, North Sydney is terrific for a mini-CBD so close to the City, and I look forward to exploring the area of the area soon!
JordanMarch 17th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
sarah’s right
libbywhy would i want my place of peace to be disrupted?
January 7th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
This blog is so quiet, are there readers like me who don’t want to reveal the best spots for obvious reasons?
But I will suggest one place and that is the lovely garden that Wendy Whitely and friends managed to make out of a jungle. My apologies to those living close and was trying to keep it a secret.
SarahOctober 15th, 2008 at 9:50 am
I take them to the Northern Beaches!
BenSeptember 17th, 2008 at 9:09 am
A couple of times over the past few years I have driven my Welsh rellos around the North Sydney LGA, starting at Berry Island, then moving to Ball’s Head, Blue’s Point, Milson’s Point, Kurraba Point and Cremorne Point, and they have had their little minds blown away by the wonders of having so much open bushland so close to that other CBD across the Harbour.
But I have also shown them nooks and crannies, the area where I live (Union/Euroka/Ancrum), the rows of terrace houses, the little sandstone workers’ cottages, the Federation houses that remain in Wollstonecraft, the artisans’ cottages in Crows Nest.
The wonder of North Sydney is that in spite of the push for development that commenced in the late 1950s, in spite of bland, unexciting glass walled office buildings, the Warringah Freeway and its consequent destruction of so much of the North Sydney precinct, in spite of the destruction that occurred with the building of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, in spite of the rape of Milson’s Point, there are still so many hidden nooks (yes, there is a Nook Avenue) and corners that remain quiet, sheltered and beautiful - a walk through the suburbs of North Sydney, through the bushland areas, the parks and gardens still reveals so much, in built form, in natural outcrops, in flora and fauna - and in the people who continue to treasure the treasure that is North Sydney.
ShirleyShirley
August 19th, 2008 at 7:48 pm