Rose Bay, post office

The former post office along New South Head Road, in the eastern suburb of Rose Bay. After the post office moved out, it was redeveloped along with an adjoining property to become a Woolworths Metro supermarket.

Linked to: Shadow Shot Sunday, Sunday Best.

Glebe, Blackwattle Bay, crane

 
This crane is located beside a walkway which runs along the foreshore of Blackwattle Bay, in the inner west suburb of Glebe. It is a remnant of Stride’s ship-breaking yard which was located where Blackwattle Bay Park is today.
Linked to: Weekend Reflections, All Seasons, Happy Now.

Lilyfield, Leichhardt North, light rail stop

The entrance to Leichhardt North Light Rail Stop from Darley Road, in the inner west suburb of Lilyfield. This stop is on the Central to Dulwich Hill line of the Sydney light rail network. 
Linked to: Skywatch Friday.

Myer, department store, entrance

This is the main entrance to the Myer department store on the corner of George Street and Market Street. The store celebrated the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival, which ran from 13 February to 1 March 2026, with rainbow flag colours decorating their store sign and the stairs inside the entrance.
Linked to: Signs, Signs, Wordy Wednesday, Words Welcome, Little Things Thursday, Thankful Thursday.

Westfield Sydney, Lunar New Year

This Lunar New Year display of a Fire Horse is hanging in the atrium of Westfield Sydney shopping centre, below Sydney Tower. In the Chinese zodiac, there are twelve animals and five elements. This year is the Year of the Horse and the element is Fire. The illuminated maple trees are also an annual feature and can also be seen here.
Linked to: Wordless Wednesday, Communal Global, Signs, Signs, Saturday Critters.

Queen Victoria Building, Lunar New Year, Horse

 

This Lunar New Year installation was on the ground in the central atrium of the Queen Victoria Building (QVB). In the Chinese zodiac, this year is the Year of the Horse. The horse in the horse shoe was surrounded by images of the other zodiac animals.
Linked to: Through My Lens, Senior Salon Pit Stop, Tuesday Treasures, Happy Tuesday, Travel Tuesday.

Haymarket, mural

"Tumbalong" is a mural along Hay Street in the Chinatown precinct of the inner city suburb of Haymarket. The 10-metre wide public artwork was created in 2020 by artist Chris Yee and uses Axolotl glass and LED lighting to celebrate the area's indigenous, industrial, and cultural history. The artwork reflects the original indigenous name "Tumbalong" for the area around Cockle Bay. The dancing characters acting as a modern expression of the hunting and gathering traditions of the cockles and Guman pines throughout the area. It also depicts historical sites including the John Dickson Steam Mill, Biddell Brothers confectionary factory, Cormack Cooperage and the former Sydney Entertainment Centre.
Linked to: Monday Mural, Mosaic Monday, Aww Mondays, Good Random Fun, Floral Friday Foto, Garden Affair.

Bondi Beach, post office (Theme Day: White)

This post van is outside the post office along Hall Street, in the eastern suburb of Bondi Beach. The heritage listed building was originally built in 1938 in the Art Deco/Egyptian style for the Commonwealth Bank. The bank closed in 2009 and Australia Post moved in here in 2021. Australia Post vans were traditionally red but in recent years they have been replaced with white ones.
Linked to: Theme Day, Shadow Shot Sunday, Sunday Best.

Queen Victoria Building, Lunar New Year, Horse

This Lunar New Year installation was in the central atrium, beneath the historical dome, of the Queen Victoria Building (QVB). In the Chinese zodiac, this year is the Year of the Horse.

Linked to: Weekend Reflections, All Seasons, Happy Now, Saturday Critters.

Cabarita, wharf

 
Cabarita ferry wharf is on Hen and Chicken Bay, on the southern side of the Parramatta River, in the inner west suburb of Cabarita.
Linked to: Skywatch Friday, Water Thursday.

Haymarket, Lunar New Year, Horse

This giant lunar lantern has been installed in the middle of Market City, a shopping centre above Paddy's Markets in Chinatown, in the inner city suburb of Haymarket. In the Chinese zodiac, this year is the Year of the Horse. 
Linked to: Wordless Wednesday, Words Welcome, Little Things Thursday, Thankful Thursday.

Haymarket, Lunar New Year, Horse

These lunar lanterns have been installed at Market City, a shopping centre above Paddy's Markets in Chinatown, in the inner city suburb of Haymarket. In the Chinese zodiac, this year is the Year of the Horse. The lantern is located in the 1909 Dining Precinct, which features deluxe Asian eateries. It takes its name from the year that the original red-brick facade of the market was built to house Sydney's first fruit and vegetable market.

Linked to: Wordless Wednesday, Communal Global, Signs, Signs, Saturday Critters.

Glebe, Bellevue Cottage

'Bellevue Cottage' is located at the end of Leichhardt Street, overlooking Blackwattle Bay, in the inner west suburb of Glebe. This heritage-listed waterfront building was built in 1896 in the Victorian Italianate style, originally as a residence but is now a French restaurant. Last week, I featured a shot of the cottage at night which can be seen here.
Linked to: Through My Lens, Senior Salon Pit Stop, Tuesday Treasures, Happy Tuesday, Travel Tuesday.

Haymarket, mural

This mural is on the wall of a restaurant on the corner of Hay Street and Kimber Lane in Chinatown at Haymarket. The artwork features stir fry ingredients rising from a wok.
Linked to: Monday Mural, Mosaic Monday, Aww Mondays, Good Random Fun, Floral Friday Foto, Garden Affair.

Tom Uglys Bridge, Georges River

A late afternoon view of Tom Uglys Bridge which crosses the Georges River and links the southern suburbs of Blakehurst and Sylvania. This view is from a boat ramp at the Sylvania end between the truss bridge on the left, which opened in 1929 and the box girder bridge on the right, which opened in 1987. 

Linked to: Shadow Shot Sunday, Sunday Best, Water Thursday.

Anzac Bridge

 
A view across Blackwattle Bay to the western pylon of the Anzac Bridge from the inner west suburb of Glebe.
Linked to: Weekend Reflections, All Seasons, Happy Now, Water Thursday.

Glebe, Blackwattle Bay

Looking across Blackwattle Bay from the pontoon wharf in the inner west suburb of Glebe. The backdrop stretches from the Anzac Bridge to the Sydney skyline and the Sydney Fish Market at Pyrmont.
Linked to: Skywatch Friday.

Glebe, Blackwattle Bay, crane

 
This crane is located beside a walkway which runs along the foreshore of Blackwattle Bay, in the inner west suburb of Glebe. It is a remnant of Stride’s ship-breaking yard which was located where Blackwattle Bay Park is today.
Linked to: Wordy Wednesday, Words Welcome, Little Things Thursday, Thankful Thursday.

Bondi Beach, shops

These shops with residences above are located along Hall Street, in the eastern suburb of Bondi Beach.
Linked to: Wordless Wednesday, Communal Global, Signs, Signs.

Glebe, Bellevue Cottage

'Bellevue Cottage' is located at the end of Leichhardt Street, overlooking Blackwattle Bay, in the inner west suburb of Glebe. This heritage-listed waterfront building was built in 1896 in the Victorian Italianate style, originally as a residence but is now a French restaurant.
Linked to: Through My Lens, Senior Salon Pit Stop, Tuesday Treasures, Happy Tuesday, Travel Tuesday.

Marrickville, mural

This mural is on the wall of Mixtape Brewing, a microbrewery and bar along Victoria Road, in the inner west suburb of Marrickville. It was created in 2024 by graffiti and mural artist Sam Absurd.

Linked to: Monday Mural, Mosaic Monday, Aww Mondays, Good Random Fun, Floral Friday Foto, Garden Affair.

Bexley, temple

 
This Taoist Temple, built in 2024, is located along Forest Road in the southern suburb of Bexley. It is home to the Australian Confucius-Mencius Morality Society (ACMMS) which holds regular gatherings to promote ethics and morality.
Linked to: Shadow Shot Sunday, Sunday Best.

Tempe, Nigel Love Bridge

The Nigel Love Bridge over Alexandra Canal, viewed from the walkway and bicycle track in Tempe Recreational Park, in the inner west suburb of Tempe. The four-lane 50-metre single span curved box girder steel bridge was built in 2014, linking Sydney Airport at Mascot to an adjoining car park. The bridge was named after Nigel Love, an aviation pioneer who in 1919 transformed a bullock paddock into Sydney Airport, one of the world's oldest continually operating airports.
Linked to: Weekend Reflections, All Seasons, Happy Now, Water Thursday.

Sutherland, Woronora Cemetery, statue

This statue stands in the centre of "The Crypts of Christ the Redeemer" section of the Woronora General Cemetery, in the southern suburb of Sutherland.

Linked to: Skywatch Friday, Floral Friday Foto, Garden Affair.

Rose Bay, sewage pumping station

This sewage pumping station (No.46) is located in Percival Park, along Collins Street in the eastern suburb of Rose Bay. It was built in 1923 in the Federation style for the Metropolitan Board of Water Supply and Sewerage (MBWS&S).
Linked to: Signs, Signs, Wordy Wednesday, Words Welcome, Little Things Thursday, Thankful Thursday.

Double Bay, Point Piper

The view from Double Bay, towards the eastern suburb of Point Piper.

Linked to: Travel Tuesday, Wordless Wednesday, Communal Global.

Watsons Bay, wharf

This wharf sits at the end of Victoria Wharf Reserve along Pacific Street, in the eastern suburb of Watsons Bay. It provides some spectacular views of Sydney Harbour and the city skyline.
Linked to: Through My Lens, Senior Salon Pit Stop, Tuesday Treasures, Happy Tuesday.

Vaucluse, art

This artwork is on a water tank and pump house in Cristison Park, along Old South Head Road in the eastern suburb of Vaucluse. It depicts whales and seagulls which can be seen in the Pacific Ocean from the cliffs on the edge of the park at South Head. 'Celebration of Life' was created in 2019 by sculptor and artist Andre Braun.
Linked to: Monday Mural, Mosaic Monday, Aww Mondays, Good Random Fun, Saturday Critters.

Vaucluse, bus shelter

This sandstone bus shelter is located at Cristison Park, along Old South Head Road in the eastern suburb of Vaucluse. The cliffs on the edge of this park at South Head provide views of the Pacific Ocean.
Linked to: Shadow Shot Sunday, Sunday Best.

Double Bay, wharf

The Double Bay ferry wharf is located at the end of Bay Street in the eastern suburb of Double Bay.

Linked to: Weekend Reflections, All Seasons, Happy Now, Water Thursday.

Lilyfield, sunset

Looking across Iron Cove towards Rodd Point at sunset from the inner west suburb of Lilyfield.

Linked to: Skywatch Friday.

Watsons Bay, sewage pumping station

This sewage pumping station (No.50) is located along Short Street in the eastern suburb of Watsons Bay. It was built in 1923 in the Federation style for the Metropolitan Board of Water Supply and Sewerage (MBWS&S), to serve the Vaucluse Ocean Outfall Sewer.
Linked to: Wordy Wednesday, Words Welcome, Little Things Thursday, Thankful Thursday.

Watsons Bay, lighthouse keeper's cottage

This lighthouse keeper's cottage is located at the South Head peninsula, in the eastern suburb of Watsons Bay. The footbridge links to the Hornby Lighthouse, in the Sydney Harbour National Park. Two sandstone cottages were designed by colonial architect Alexander Dawson and built in 1858 in the Victorian architectural style.
Linked to: Wordless Wednesday, Communal Global, Signs, Signs, Floral Friday Foto, Garden Affair.