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Slessor’s Sydney

The trail of one of Australia’s greatest poets is still warm in Sydney today.

By John Summers In Travel

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30th June, 2012
Sydney is its harbour. The bridge and the Opera House are only there to draw attention to it, to bask in the glory of that perfect water. On a good day, the sea shimmering, you’d never guess it was too polluted to fish in. Tourists are urged to the harbour and to the harbour ferries. Floating buses that serve outer suburbs, they offer a daily commute that doubles as a sightseeing trip. In autumn and on a public holiday, the ferry to Manly was still packed. A Filipino family snapped shot after shot of the bridge and the multimillion-dollar houses that line the waterside. An African woman had ...

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