Cooks River Cycleway - Sydney

Sydney Olympic Park to Botany Bay.

This cycleway follows the river for most of the way, there are a few kilometres of side streets after leaving Olympic Park but from that point on you are riding through parks, beside golf courses, playing fields, market gardens and the river.

This would be a perfect ride for visitors to Sydney, take a train to Olympic Park, rent a bike there and then ride out and back to Botany Bay. The total distance is approximately 50 kms. depending on how far along the shore you ride at Botany Bay. This morning there were cricket matches, womens soccer, golfers and hundreds of families enjoying the parks. 

If you decide to do the ride make sure you stop at Adora, this is a small  chocolate factory and coffee shop. Order a coffee and you get one free handmade chocolate to taste. Most customers can't stop at one. You cant miss it, located around the halfway point of the ride out to Botany Bay so you can stop there in both directions.

 It's not all good, a few small sections of old industrial areas.

 Dont miss out on a great coffee with a free homemade chocolate at Adora.

Market gardens at Kyeemah.

Looking north towards the airport terminal.

Botany Bay and the main runway at Sydney Airport, a few more kilometres and you have a selection of coffee shops and restaurants at Brighton Le Sands.

Photos were taken using a very simple Sony T707 phone.

House guests.

Living on the edge of a national park near Sydney makes for an interesting life, plenty of unexpected visitors.

 A Black Wallaby, one of a family that shares this place with us, they visit us most days.

 A Bar Shouldered Dove, an occasional visitor.

A family of Kookaburras enjoying the early morning sunshine.

This years new arrivals getting ready for their first flight training lesson. Red Browed Finches I think but at such a young age it's difficult to tell. Their home was in our lemon tree.

A two metre long Diamond Python trying to find a way into the roof cavity. These are slow moving and unless provoked quite docile.

Another Diamond Python just slightly smaller, scared the *#%! out of me when I went to backwash the swimming pool.

And another, this one was resting under my car when I went to drive it.

A Brown Tree snake.

This visitor also decided to take up residence in the pool motor house. I almost put my hand on it when I turned on the motor. At first I thought it was a deadly King Brown snake but after checking my snake book realised it was a Brown Tree snake. The details said harmless but will strike repeatedly, no venom. I decided to let the friendly people at Wires help me to remove it. Barry who was well into his seventies calmly reached in and picked it up. Then could not understand why I didn't want to hold it.

 A male Fairy Wren

 Same one helping himself to some dinner.

 You would look sad too if these guys kept stealing your dinner.