Sandringham, Georges River

The beach in the southern suburb of Sandringham provides this view of two yachts sailing from Botany Bay, heading upstream on the Georges River. The Towra Point Nature Reserve is in the background.

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Sandringham, baths

Sandringham Baths are located on the shore of Botany Bay, in the southern suburb of Sandringham. The weather has started to cool now that Autumn has arrived and there weren't any swimmers here late in the afternoon as this seagull kept watch. This area had been known as Stripper's Point in the 1830s, from the local occupation of tree-felling and bark-stripping. Luckily the name was changed to Sandringham by William Rust, an ardent royalist who built the Prince of Wales Hotel here in the 1870s to honour Edward VII, the Prince of Wales, who in 1872 was also building a royal residence at Sandringham, in Norfolk, England.

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Sans Souci sunset

These balmy summer evenings are great for a walk along the beach. I captured this glorious sunset on Wednesday night around 8 pm looking towards the Captain Cook Bridge at a spot where Sans Souci ends and Sandringham begins, where the Georges River flows into Botany Bay.