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This view of the New Year's Eve fireworks over the Sydney Harbour Bridge was from Pyrmont Point Park. The first shot is quite clear but unfortunately we were downwind of the fireworks display, so the smoke made it diffucult to view the rest of the show over the bridge. Luckily we could still see the other fireworks launched from barges along Sydney Harbour.
This view of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Barangaroo was from Pirrama Park at Pyrmont on New Year's Eve, just before the midnight fireworks. The big 'X' on the bridge was part of this year's theme which was 'Make Your Mark' for 'NYE X' or New Year's Eve 2010.
This view of the inner city suburbs of Millers Point and Barangaroo is from a ferry on Sydney Harbour. Moore's Wharf and the Operational Headquarters of the Sydney Ports Corporation in the foreground and the Palisade Hotel on the horizon are in Millers Point. The Harbour Control Tower and the city's former port facilities, which are soon to be redeveloped, were formerly part of Millers Point but are now part of a new suburb known as Barangaroo.
This giant spider and web are located in an abandoned stairway in the sandstone wall at Barangaroo. This part of Hickson Road is now officially named The Hungry Mile, recognising its nickname during the Great Depression. It came from harbourside workers lined up along the road opposite the wharves as foremen chose the casual labourers for the day and those without work were often left hungry. I had trouble finding information about this artwork and then noticed a sign in the corner for Guerrilla Gardeners, which was a short-lived reality television, gardening makeover show. The gardeners would spruce up certain parts of the city that they feel had been neglected and created controversy with local councils because they did the work without permission and the show highlighted the council’s neglect. Strangely, this doesn't appear in the website's list of episodes but the show was axed, so maybe the work on this project never screened. Without regular maintenance, some of the plants on the stairway look rather neglected, just like another of their installations at Moore Park.
Barangaroo is the new suburb along the western foreshore of the Sydney Central Business District. An urban renewal project will create new parklands, commercial and residential areas here. The name Barangaroo honours an indigenous woman from Sydney's early history who was a powerful and colourful figure in the colonisation of Australia. She was also the wife of Bennelong, another important indigenous figure after whom Bennelong Point is named which is the site of the Sydney Opera House, on the other side of the Central Business District.
The areas to the west of the Sydney Central Business District once contained the city's port facilities. A few years ago, the port facilities were moved from Sydney Harbour to Port Botany, but the Sydney Ports Harbour Control Tower remains here, in front of exposed sandstone. The view above, from a different angle, shows its proximity to the Sydney Harbour Bridge. During the Great Depression, the area had been nicknamed The Hungry Mile because harbourside workers would line up along the road opposite the wharves as foremen chose the casual labourers for the day and those without work were often left hungry. The nickname has now been officially recognised as a city locality. Click here to view all participants of Watery Wednesday
