Garuda Indonesia Colours Magazine March 2019 | Page 79

Travel | Sydney
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Less well known are
the city’s harbour walks.
The suburbs of the elegant
North Shore offer
some of Sydney’s most
beautiful rambles.
1 The Sculpture by the Sea outdoor sculpture exhibition
is held annually on the Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk,
featuring works by many artists.
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5 Senses – Sight
NATIONAL MARITIME
MUSEUM
One of the country’s best museums,
located in entertainment-rich Darling
Harbour, the National Maritime Museum
covers the story of Australia’s relationship
with the sea, including its role in defence,
trade, immigration and the popular
imagination. Kids will enjoy clambering
around the old vessels moored on the quays,
which include a remarkable 1606 Dutch
sailing ship that once plied the spice trade in
Indonesia, a modern patrol boat, and a
decommissioned Australian navy submarine.
2 Murray Street, www.anmm.gov.au
Salah satu museum terbaik di Australia ini
berlokasi di Darling Harbour yang sarat
hiburan. National Maritime Museum
memaparkan sejarah bahari Australia,
termasuk peran kawasan perairannya dalam
pertahanan, perdagangan, imigrasi dan juga
melahirkan imajinasi populer. Anak-anak
akan senang menaiki kapal-kapal tua yang
ditambatkan di dermaga, termasuk kapal layar
Belanda 1606 yang dulu mengangkut
rempah-rempah dari Indonesia, serta kapal
patroli modern dan kapal selam angkatan laut
Australia yang sudah pensiun.
‘noise of tumbling waters’ and, on a day
when the surf is rolling in, you can see why.
This is Australia’s most famous beach,
frequented by surfers, swimmers and
sunbathers, and backed by a row of cafés
and shops. From here, it’s an easy two-hour
walk around the coast to Coogee. for fish. From here, it’s up and down over
the numerous headlands of sprawling
Middle Harbour before the dry scrub
of the clifftops gives way to the lush
sub-tropical vegetation that grows in shaded,
hidden gullies. White butterflies flit among
giant tree ferns, and water trickles down rocks.
The path starts just past the swimming
baths at the southern end of Bondi and leads
to Tamarama and then Bronte, where locals
while away the afternoon in the sun at a row
of outdoor cafés. Walk on through Waverley
Cemetery, superbly located on the clifftops
and the resting place of several famous
Australians, before arriving at Coogee.
Here the small beach is enclosed by green
headlands and backed by more
chatter-filled cafés. As you swing back upwards, the path
skirts the top of tall cliffs, where you’ll find
Aboriginal rock carvings depicting kangaroos
and fish. From this vantage point, there are
stunning views back down the harbour
towards the skyscrapers of the city, which
stick incongruously above the bushland
like the set of a science-fiction movie.
The walk showcases the ocean, but less
well known are the city’s harbour walks.
The suburbs of the elegant North Shore
offer some of Sydney’s most beautiful
rambles. Take the ferry from the city centre
across the harbour to Kirribilli. From here,
walks meander around a series of bays,
sometimes along suburban streets,
sometimes through public gardens,
occasionally through patches of bushland.
You can admire well-kept private gardens
and waterside mansions along the way, if you
can drag your eyes from the photogenic
sweep of city skyline and Opera House. You
could finish your walk in Mosman, once a
19 th -century whaling station, and now one of
Sydney’s chicest suburbs.
For a more rugged walk, consider starting
at Spit Bridge and heading eastwards along
the harbour from Mosman. The well-
signposted track starts off through dense
vegetation and mudflats where heron hunt
Much of the trail to Manly passes through
Sydney Harbour National Park, where
you’ll enjoy a great many flowering bushes
such as the distinctively Australian banksias.
Red-tailed skinks – a type of lizard – are
often seen sunning themselves on rocks.
Cockatoos tumble through the trees in white
and gold, screeching loudly. Lorikeets pester
picnickers for food, although few people have
the heart to complain about being pestered
by birds that look like court jesters in
emerald, blue, red and yellow.
As for the native Australian trees,
they appear exceedingly odd but can also
be strangely beautiful. Some have salmon-
pink bark, smooth and cool to the touch
and crossed with delicate lines of oozing
black sap, while others have white bark that
looks as if it has been scribbled on by a
furious child with a black pencil.
The rugged part of this walk ends at the
suburb of Balgowlah. From here, a concrete
path accessible even to wheelchairs meanders
through harbour-side suburbs. Although