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Erected as a war memorial to the men who fought the battle of El Alamein in Northern Africa during World War II. It is one the most photographed things in Kings Cross, I had to add it here as well

it is only 16284km to Paris the home the first city daily photo blog set up by Eric Tenin

today’s sunset taken from Hawkins lookout Wisemans ferry, the Hawkesbury river below is the northern border of greater Sydney

situated at “Camp Cove” this old canon was part of Sydney’s early defenses. the canon looks back into the harbour at Sydney in the background and would have been use to fire at the rear of attacking ships after they had come through the heads

Isn’t that a great name

this is the other side of Wooloomooloo’s finger wharf that I posted on the 21st and this time I have used a wide angle lens instead of the telephoto to show how big this wharf really is, plus with the return of some wet weather I have been lucky to get a more dramatic sky.

The Hornby lighthouse was built after over 120 lives were lost 150 years ago (1857) when the British clipper Dunbar was ship wrecked on South head at the entrance to Sydney harbour and is the 2nd oldest harbour lighthouse in New South Wales

the light house is Painted with Red and White stripes to distinguish it from the Macquarie lighthouse 2 km to the south