Day forty two

A bright sunny day so we headed in to Sydney harbour to take a river ferry up the Paramatta River to a town called Paramatta.  The ferry took us under the bridge and round some of the dock lands that we have not seen before.

Bridge

Funfair

Skyline

The Sidney-sprawl seemed to go on for a long time but some of the journey was through mangroves.

Mangrove

In Paramatta we walked to a heritage site called Elizabeth Farm and is one of the oldest surviving buildings from the early settler days. Paramatta was founded two years after Sydney and the farm was established then. The house started as a three roomed cottage but over thirty years, as the owners grew more prosperous they extended and remodelled it to create a very stylish home.

Exterior

Interior

The family were unusual in that they befriended the local Aborigines and socialised with them. In the 1900s a Quaker family owned the house for sixty years and did much to conserve the building. The gardens have many of the trees planted by the first family.

Gardens

Cactus

The return journey brought us back to the harbour with threatening clouds overhead.

Skyline

Reflection

 

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