Endeavour Bridge

Endeavour Bridge carries General Holmes Drive across the Cooks River between Mascot and Kyeemagh, close to Botany Bay. It is named after the HMB Endeavour, the ship commanded by Captain James Cook, an English explorer, navigator and cartographer. The crew of the Endeavour arrived in Botany Bay in 1770 and was the first recorded European expedition to navigate and map the eastern coastline of Australia. 

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Kyeemagh, Cooks River and Botany Bay

A lone kayaker paddles out of the Cooks River into Botany Bay at Kyeemagh.

Kyeemagh, Cooks River

A view of the sunset behind the Cooks River in the southern suburb of Kyeemagh from Endeavour Bridge, looking towards the suburbs of Banksia and Arncliffe.

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Kyeemagh, Cooks River

These sunset views of the Cooks River are from the Endeavour Bridge, in the southern suburb of Kyeemagh, looking towards the suburbs of Banksia and Arncliffe.

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Wolli Creek, sunset

The sun sets just beside the apartments in the southern suburb of Wolli Creek, viewed from the banks of the Cooks River at Tempe.

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Tempe, Cooks River sunset

The view across the Cooks River at sunset from Tempe towards the southern suburb of Wolli Creek. These were taken a few minutes apart and I couldn't decide which one I liked better because one had more colourful reflections in the water, while the other had more colours in the sky.

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Cooks River wakeboarding

The unseasonal warm weather on the weekend brought out the wakeboarders on the Cooks River at Tempe.

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Earlwood, Cooks River

The Cooks River looking west between the suburbs of Earlwood and Dulwich Hill (top) and looking east between the suburbs of Marrickville and Earlwood (bottom).

Marrickville Golf Course is located along the north bank of the river, while parkland and a bicycle track run along the south bank. These shots are a bit further upstream from yesterday's sunset photos.

Undercliffe, Cooks River sunset

A perfect mirror image of the sunset was produced on the Cooks River, between the suburbs of Undercliffe and Marrickville.

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Tempe, Cooks River sunset

A couple of fishermen bring their little boat in at sunset on the Cooks River at Tempe.

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Wolli Creek

Wolli Creek runs between the southern suburbs of Undercliffe and Wolli Creek and empties into the Cooks River near the suburb of Tempe. These apartments (top) dominate the skyline at Wolli Creek. The bridge (bottom) over Wolli Creek, located a bit further upstream, carries the Southern and Western Suburbs Ocean Outfall Sewer.

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Tempe, Cooks River

Tempe is not the most glamorous suburb in Sydney, considering it is made up of mostly industrial and commercial developments and the skyline is dominated by a large concrete water tower. Given the right weather conditions, the area around the Cooks River can look quite picturesque. This area was once a popular resort, with large crowds attracted for swimming and boating on the river, until it became too polluted by industrial estates further upstream. Later, part of the suburb became landfill, colloquially known as 'Tempe Tip'. These days, much of that area has been redeveloped for commercial use and some beautiful parklands have been created near the river. Seeing the high density residential redevelopment that has occured to the industrial areas south of the river, in the area known as Wolli Creek, I can imagine Tempe as a future redevelopment site.

Wolli Creek, Tempe House

Tempe House sits on the southern shore of the Cooks River in the southern suburb of Wolli Creek. It was designed by John Verge and built by Alexander Brodie Spark in 1836. It has a Georgian feel and regarded as one of the great houses of Sydney. It was named after the 'Vale of Tempe', a beautiful valley in ancient Greek legend set at the foot of Mount Olympus in Greece.