Visit to Wolli Creek Regional Park (28 August 2025)

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landgrant boundaries along walk

Thursday 28 August 2025 was a beautiful day for walk. 

According to Wikipedia this is the land of the Bidgigal and it was the end of their festival that Cook encountered late in April 1770 at Sting Ray Bay which Banks renamed Botany Bay.  

Turrella Reserve is at 2a Banks Road and there is a Bidjigal Road in Arncliff nearby.

"Tempe station opened on 15 October 1884 on the same date as of the Illawarra line from Redfern to Hurstville with two side platforms. It was referred to during the planning stages as Cooks River railway station, but opened under the Tempe name." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempe_railway_station

got my walking boots on
"Council Officers noted in the report that the Marrickville South area is the last major area in the LGA in which we do not have a modern flood study. Council Officers advised they have applied for a grant with the Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water to undertake that study between this year and next year. It was noted Council are currently waiting on confirmation of that grant which usually comes in October." - https://innerwest.infocouncil.biz/Open/2025/02/FMACC_26022025_AGN_4207_AT_WEB.htm (viewed sep , 2025)

Walk from Tempe Station to Turrella Station, Turrella St

 walk. Toilet & water stop at Turrella Reserve has playground with toilet and drinking fountain (at 2a Banks Rd), lot's of signs indicate it is run by National Parks not Canterburry-Bankstown Council.

With Lunch at Hot Grind Cafe across from Turella Station.

Canal at Tempe Station, 

Tempe Station


Carriage 5941

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Sydenham station closed and being upgraded to take driverless metro

Looking for compartment identification to report issued

step down from train to platform at central station

Train to Tempe 

War Memorial Boards

Enroute to platforms 24 &25 at Central Station

War memorial Board & Public Phone

more war boards

central Station Arcade

foundation stone central station

central station


stopped at Mountain St.


Parramatta Rd, Annandale Bus Stop

Presbytry, St Brendan's Annandale

Former Mary McKillop Convent, Annandale 

Planes and Cockatoos with Hunter Baillie Steeple

Hunter Baillie Memorial Prebyterian Church


 


wolli creek meets cook's river





































stand of turpentine (syncarpia glomulifera)




















history of jackson place 

Jackson place capark 

Jackson Place cottages





Stand of tea trees


cut in rocks in path


































feral (south american) tree on riverbank



Canterbury Velodrome (preservation society)




















Gross Pollutant trap and Sink Basin



There may well have been a fish trap where there is now a bridge and concrete channel for the river to flow through. Chickenwire reinforced concrete, plastic waste lies on the river. Perhaps a Cockspur coral tree (Erythrina crista-galli) hangs over the waterway. Cockspur coral tree a deciduous shrub tree with red flowers. It is native to South America and a weed of waterways and floodplains, particularly in coastal areas in NSW. (https://weeds.dpi.nsw.gov.au/Weeds/CockspurCoralTree viewed 12 Sep 2025 at 13.49)


Plaque about film Jedda at Turella Station


plastic in creek

Wolli Creek from Turella Bridge















Hand Sewn Quilt (ANC) 

Hand Sewn Back of Quilt (ANC)

Bus from Central to Annandale

Drama at Central view from Bus Station on Broadway

Gap between train (D1015)and platform at Green Square

Green Station

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