Transport Minister Constance was rather evasive about that. He eventually promised to consider it, but he didn't sound that convincing.
What say we check back in here, in a couple of years time. What's the betting there will magically be an enormous housing development on the Woolworths car park site?
Jannali is on the Cronulla/Waterfall line, and it's the stop before Sutherland. I stopped and checked it out the other day, and it's a thoroughly nice little suburb.
Several pleasant cafes and a very nice feel to the place.
And there are excellent little bushwalks to be done around here. Like in the Burnum Burnum Sanctuary, where there are forests of Gymea Lilies. I guess there ought to be, as it's not far from Gymea here.
This is the Pipeline Track, alongside the very rusty old Woranora water pipeline.
What's going on here then? We were in the Castle Mall shopping centre for our Sunday morning coffee, and there was an excited crowd outside the Medical Centre. Inside was an even more excited bunch of politicians, senior health executives, and the nation's media. It was the launch (pre-launch actually) of the country's COVID-19 vaccination programme.
Here's a Reuters video. Watch for the bit where our first vaccinee inadvertently(?) gives a disrespectful gesture to them all!
Click here: YouTube/Sky News video
The pink flannel flower (Actinotus forsythii) is considered to be a very rare and special thing. It's only found in a handful of places in south-east Australia, and it's only found about a year after a bushfire. Its growth is thought to be dependent on the presence of a particular chemical in the bushfire smoke.
When a group of us came across a tiny handful of the flowers a couple of years ago in a remote bushwalking spot (see here: Sept 2019 post ), we were told we were unlikely to ever see one again. They were a bit like Halleys Comet, or a total eclipse of the sun. Once in a lifetime.
Well, they're back with a vengeance, and they're in all kinds of easy-to-access places this time. Like right alongside the Narrowneck Road near Katoomba. Every man and his botanist friend is out there admiring them. It's all to do with the massive bushfires of 12 months or so ago.
What I found in Chatswood the other day was that Chinese New Year is being marked, but there's not going to be that much happening. The Council and business-sponsored displays look to be on a rather smaller scale than usual. It's nothing like when I checked out the start of the Year of the Pig in pre-COVID 2019. See here: Year of the Pig, Feb 2019
Don't want those crowds after all.
They put on this fun little dinosaur show, where they do indeed link dinosaurs with butterflies. It was to do with amber-encased butterfly specimens, and how amber-encased dinosaur bits are going to really truly bring dinosaurs back to life.
Hope so. It'll be fun!
That would be giving the game away. Though I think the secret is pretty well out by now. I even contributed to this situation when I posted about our last Brisbane trip, here: Travelling north again
It's just about half way to Brisbane, so it's ideal for a stopover. And it's also about the nicest seaside town you could ever hope to stumble upon.
In fact the surfing duck story was labelled as the most viewed story on the BBC's website one day. See here: BBC story Duck picture courtesy BBC
I didn't find it. Found a few other ducks on the beach though.
Plus some human surfers and some very big seas.
A nice visit, with or without its surfing duck!
Note the lifeguards' ute. The beaches were all closed following a string of drownings caused by the wild seas.
Note how some people snuck back in regardless, as soon as the lifeguards looked away.
Below: the view from distant Springbrook
