Category Archives: Wollongong
Sunday morning sky shots
Since yesterday it has been cooler here in West Wollongong, but we still get great skies. These were taken around 7.30 am.
Variations on Clifton
Using Funny Photo Maker, variations on the view from the Sydney train last Sunday morning.
February 2013 theme day–Umbrellas
Note the Sydney Boys High brolly in the bottom picture – still going strong after seven years.
- See City Daily Photo February Theme Day – Umbrellas for more entries.
To Sydney as the wet approaches–pinhole shots
Yes, looks like the Queensland wet is spilling our way.
Weather forecasters have warned heavy rain and flash flooding could hit the Illawarra this evening as severe weather from an ex-tropical cyclone in Queensland moves south.
The Bureau of Meteorology has issued storm and wind warnings for the Hunter, Sydney metropolitan and Illawarra areas today, predicting rainfall of up to 300 millimetres in isolated areas, damaging winds and potential flash flooding throughout much of eastern NSW.
The warning prompted State Emergency Service (SES) Illawarra region controller Greg Murphy to cut short his trip to Taree to assist northern NSW crews and return home. He said Illawarra crews were on standby.
“At this stage the bureau’s best prediction is that the severe weather may arrive in the Illawarra late [today],” he said.
“We’ve been advised of rainfall up to 300 millimetres in isolated areas and up to 150 millimetres across large parts of the Illawarra, as well as the possibility of flash flooding and storm damage due to strong winds.
“We also know the North Coast is experiencing high seas with significant swell, which could also extend down the coast to the Illawarra.”
Yesterday I ventured up to Sydney. I decided that pinhole was the way to go for these shots from the train between Scarborough and Stanwell Park.
Not quite what it may seem at first…
At Wollongong Station this morning.
Passing freight train.
I spent the day in Sydney. More later.
FJ Holden beside the Yum Yum Cafe
Surely the archetypal Australian car 1953-57.
Mind you, at the time my family seems to have spurned the FJ – and I recall finding (on the few occasions I rode in one as a kid) that they tended to make me carsick…
Standard Vanguard Spacemaster and Austins – our mob in 1955. Not an FJ in sight.
- See other City Daily Photo Australia Day posts.