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A winter sky over the community hall in the inner west suburb of Breakfast Point. The Breakfast Point Community Hall was only built in 2005 but the style and material makes it look like a church built in another century. The suburb was named to honour the point of contact between Europeans and Aborigines. Captain John Hunter's expedition were exploring the Parramatta River and having breakfast here on 5th February 1788 when they encountered the traditional owners of the land, the Wangal Clan. John Hunter, later became the Governor of New South Wales.
This white gazebo looks splendid in the sunshine on the village green, surrounded by many new apartments in the inner west suburb of Breakfast Point. The clouds rolling in behind it look rather menacing though. This is a relatively new residential suburb on land that was once the site of the Mortlake Gas Works of the Australian Gaslight Company from 1884 to 1990. The site beside the Parramatta River was ideal for the shipping of coal used in the process of carbonisation to obtain gas. This process was discontinued in 1971 when natural gas from the interior of Australia began being piped here, processed by giving it an odour for safety reasons and then distributed to consumers throughout the Sydney area.
