Five Dock

Five Dock

After parking, we started starting at the Great North Road. Luckily the first shop to grab our attention was Tamborrino Pasticceria. After purchasing a Vanilla Zuccherati  and Vanilla Cannoli we continued on stopping to eat these DELICIOUS pastries. 




So much choice and not expensive at all. 


They must get asked A LOT about this timing of eating. Love these very specific and detailed instructions for their semifreddo cakes. 


Sophia!



We continued down Great North Road, slowly heading toward the water. First stop was St Alban's Church which had an ancient boom gate and a lovely set of metal swing gates. We were taking all sorts of pictures and talking loudly and then had some looks from a couple who were heading in to the service. Time to leave, but not before finding this incredible wood eagle statute outside was I think was the rector's house and also these beautiful flowers.



Trespassing on Church property 




Eagle Craft - why not. 


View from the Church 

We wandered down to "Fred Kelly Place", which is "named after Frederick John Kelly (1897 - 1998) who was the last surviving New South Wales veteran of the Gallipoli war. Fred lived locally and was an accountant at the local Nestle factory." We took some photos of the mosaic art which included a rather macabre series of images of fish with heads on top of skeleton bodies. Interestingly the plaza is also called Plaza Eolie and "celebrates the contribution of Italian immigrants from Isole Eolie (Aeolian Islands). The mosaic by Nola Diamantopoulos represents Eolo (or Aeolus), God of the winds"

God of the Winds

                                                            Dead fish 

I was on a bit of a mission to find evidence of the Laneways project which has been touted by Canada Bay council. We saw some murals on walls - with this one being the most obvious. 


So many interesting buildings along the Great North Road - old, new, ugly, sweet. Here is a random selection including an old bank and a sweet little Australia Post office which had a lovely garden with bright panelled walls and an odd park bench arrangement with a view of a skip bin. 








Old post office maybe?


                                            This Scout Hall needs some love. 

Further down the road we ran out of shops and ended up at a park on the foreshore. Some odd sights included a park bench with a curve plant frame over it (grape vine and barbed wire) and a tree that was growing sideways. Two glass art works celebrating the mangrove and a number of community message boards about protection of the native birds and mangroves. It started to drizzle and that set us back to the streets where we saw a house that had a lovely bench outside with handy tap and old brick houses of many shapes and sizes. 










Bench with handy tap 


Angels holding up the roof


Guard Owl 


                                                   Bent tree and Godwits 



Mangroves

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We wound up back where we started at the Plaza and found the Five Dock library, handily situated next to a Coles! The library was closed but looked lovely inside with a beautiful kids section. I took a photo as I wanted that cushion. We also found the infamous Murals - well two of them. 



View from the Library of the new Metro line construction works. 


That is the cutest cushion!


We finished the walk by returning to the pasticceria and grabbing one more pastry before heading back to Stanmore. We passed by Haberfield and noted this down as another place to explore. 12 minute drive and a totally different environment. Great fun. 
























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