Epic Hikes of the World ( PDFDrive )

In quick succession we zip across the Tarban Creek Bridge and the Fig Tree
Bridge, a span bridge and a girder bridge respectively. From the footpath we
goggle at the real estate of Sydney’s North Shore – multimillion-dollar houses
tucked into hillsides of gum trees and jacarandas, paths leading to docks where
sailing boats and speedboats bob patiently. Just beneath the Fig Tree Bridge is Fig
Tree House, a turreted yellow cottage built in the 1830s by Mary Reibey, who
arrived in Australia as a convict in 1792 and made her fortune in shipping (you can
see her picture on the AU$20 note).
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enjoying the shade from palm trees
“The mighty steel arch stretches across the harbour between pylons of
Australian granite”
PORT JACKSON
Sydney Harbour is part of a larger body of water known as Port Jackson (though