Mascot, runway and beach

This little beach on Botany Bay sits beside one of the north-south runways of Sydney Airport, in the eastern suburb of Mascot. This Qantas 747 is preparing to take off to the north, just at it passes by the airport control tower. The Socceroos is the nickname for Australia's national soccer team that is sponsored by Qantas and promoted on the side of this plane.

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Cronulla, Wanda Beach

The walkway leads down to Wanda Beach, the northernmost patrolled beach of the southern suburb of Cronulla. Vegetation has been grown behind the beach to protect the sand dunes and the fences prevent beachgoers from damaging them.

Cronulla, Elouera Beach, tower

This lifesaver's tower located near the Elouera Surf Lifesaving Club, sits behind Elouera Beach at Cronulla and provides an optimum view of swimmers and surfers in the ocean.

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Cronulla, Elouera Beach, surf rescue boat

This surf rescue boat is ready for action on the shore of Eloera Beach at Cronulla.

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Cronulla, Elouera Beach

Elouera is one of the surf beaches along Bate Bay, in the southern suburb of Cronulla. The lifesavers patrol the beach from a tent on the beach between the red and yellow flags, a short distance from the lifesaver's tower and club. The lifesavers use yellow surfboards and life preservers to rescue swimmers or surfers from the ocean.

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Cronulla, Shelley Beach

Shelly Beach is the southernmost beach of the southern suburb of Cronulla. When the tide goes out there are many rock pools to explore in this area. The clouds stayed mainly offshore on this day but it was was quite a cool afternoon so nobody was swimming.

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Cronulla, Wanda Beach, tower

Wanda Beach is the northernmost patrolled beach of the southern suburb of Cronulla. This lifesaver's tower sits behind the beach, close to Wanda Lifesavers Club, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. A group of lifesavers are keeping watch on Bate Bay, as a swimmer heads down to the beach, a kitesurfer surfs the bay and a seagull flies past.

Cronulla, rock pools

 These rock pools in the southern suburb of Cronulla at a locale which is known as 'The Alley', situated between Cronulla Beach and North Cronulla Beach.

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Bronte, Nelson Bay

This view of Nelson Bay and the eastern suburb of Bronte is from a lookout on Bronte Marine Drive, north of Bronte Beach.

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Bronte Park

These picnic shelters are at Bronte Park overlooking Nelson Bay and Bronte Beach, in the eastern suburb of Bronte. The suburb took its name from Bronte House which was built in 1845 in this area by Robert Lowe, who became Viscount Sherbrooke. He had named it for Lord Horatio Nelson, who was the Duke of Bronte, a place in Sicily, Italy. Nelson Bay is also named for Lord Nelson.

Bronte Baths

Bronte Baths are located just south of Bronte Beach on Nelson Bay, in the eastern suburb of Bronte. They are also known as the Bronte Beach Baths or the Bond Ocean Pool after lifesaving pioneer and swimming teacher, Major John Bond.

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Bronte Beach

Bronte Beach is a popular beach on Nelson Bay, in the eastern suburb of Bronte. This view to the Pacific Ocean is from Bronte Park, centred on the lifesaver patrolled area of the beach between the flags.

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Tamarama, MacKenzies Bay

A view of MacKenzies Bay, in the eastern suburb of Tamarama looking towards Bronte and Clovelly.

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Dolls Point, Cook Park

These Norfolk Island Pines are located on the edge of Cook Park, overlooking Lady Robinsons Beach, in the southern suburb of Dolls Point. The clouds were rolling in from Botany Bay to threaten the sunny day.

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Brighton-Le-Sands

This view from Lady Robinsons Beach in the southern suburb of Brighton-Le-Sands is dominated by the row of Norfolk Island Pines in Cook Park. The Novotel Hotel on The Grand Parade dominates the skyline in the suburb from other angles. I've featured many photos from around this area but usually looking out towards Botany Bay. This time I'm showing the view back from the bay. If you look closely in the park, on the left, you can see the sculpture of an olympian that I use as my avatar or profile photo.

La Perouse, monument

The eastern suburb of La Perouse, on the northern headland of Botany Bay, was named after the French navigator Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse (1741-88). His expedition landed in the bay in January 1788, a few days after the First Fleet of convicts arrived from Britain to establish a colony in Australia. King Louis XVI of France had commissioned Lapérouse to explore the Pacific on a scientific voyage, inspired by the voyages of Captain James Cook. The Laperouse Monument is an obelisk built by the French in 1825 in what is now the Botany Bay National Park, overlooking Frenchmans Bay.

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Manly, Oceanides

'Oceanides'  is a sculpture of two sea nymphs located on the side of the rock pool at Fairy Bower Beach, in the northern suburb of Manly. The sculpture was created by Helen Leete in 1997. The Okeanides in Greek mythology were sea nymphs that were part human and part sea creature.

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