Sydney Harbour Cruising
When I was a young bloke, every holidays we used to take the trip across from Manly to the city.
On those trips I used to look out at the sea, the cliffs along the foreshores of Sydney Harbour and dream. Just as this kid seems to be doing.
Back then the ferries were much more elegant. From memory we had the North Head, Barracoola, Curl Curl, Collaroy, and South Steyne (the largst of them all).
When North Head was scrapped the wheelhouse was placed in a forecourt at Warringah Mall Shopping Centre for children to play on. On shopping days, as we grew older and more bored with the shops, we were let loose in the playground that became one of the most vivid of my childhood memories.
Memories of those days live on with the South Steyne being restored and used as a resturant function centre and tourist attraction in Darling Harbour, where it is permanently moored as a reminder of the glory days of Sydney ferries.
On those trips I used to look out at the sea, the cliffs along the foreshores of Sydney Harbour and dream. Just as this kid seems to be doing.
Back then the ferries were much more elegant. From memory we had the North Head, Barracoola, Curl Curl, Collaroy, and South Steyne (the largst of them all).
When North Head was scrapped the wheelhouse was placed in a forecourt at Warringah Mall Shopping Centre for children to play on. On shopping days, as we grew older and more bored with the shops, we were let loose in the playground that became one of the most vivid of my childhood memories.
Memories of those days live on with the South Steyne being restored and used as a resturant function centre and tourist attraction in Darling Harbour, where it is permanently moored as a reminder of the glory days of Sydney ferries.
posted by Peter Konnecke at
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