Coastal & marine
City of Gods, my early experience and toy boat
Inspired by a watercolour of the ruins of the temple of Vishnu, refugee curator in residence Jagath Dheerasekara writes about Devinuvara as a site of pilgrimage, colonisation and uprising
Harbour views through time
More than 4000 striking images from the Sydney Harbour Trust and Maritime Services Board in the State Archives Collection have been released online
Enough rope
More than a kilometre of rope suspended the hammocks required to sleep 600 or more convicts in the Hyde Park Barracks dormitories between 1819 and 1848
Tales of Sydney beaches
Meet a bunch of keen, caring and colourful Sydney beach-goers and see what attracts them to the city's fabled and fabulous coast
A pond in a privately owned paddock
Today, Sydneysiders would find it incredible that a century ago many of the harbourside beaches and parks to which they flock in summer were privately owned and not accessible to the public