Back in May, before I went to Adelaide, I went out to Harris Park for lunch and caught the river cat back to Sydney. An interesting footnote to that trip is the demonstrations that happened a few weeks later, right there in Wigram Road where we had lunch and outside the Lebanese cafe that we went to for coffee afterwards. An Indian student had been attacked late at night by what was claimed to be a Lebanese gang. This was one of a string of late night attacks on Indian students that had earlier led to demonstrations in Melbourne. The cops claim that there was nothing racial about the attacks, it's just that Indian students have a bit of a niche in the job market - working in 7 Elevens and other places that stay open very late - so they tend to be out and about on their own in the middle of the night. The Indian students, quite justifiably in my view, argued differently. Even if it's not racial, they still have a right to be better protected. Being out late at night is not asking to be attacked!

Anyway, I didn't get to post more photos of my trip down the river back to Sydney, so I'll do that bit by bit when I have time. Here's the first installment.

For a bit after leaving Parramatta the river is just lined with mangroves. In an area incongruously named Camellia, however, things start to get industrial. This place belongs to a company called Boral and the sign on the side said '...board' (I couldn't see all of it). Anyway they do construction materials, mostly from timber.


No idea what this is.


Nor do I know what is being carried over the river in this pipe. My map says 'footbridge'.