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📷 Photo challenge day 15: tie. This is how the tugboat from day 9 was secured to the wharf at Pyrmont, #Sydney. #mbjune

A weathered, multicolored rope is tied around a metal structure with bolts.
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Photo challenge, day 14: twilight at the mouth of Deerubbin, the Hawkesbury River #mbjune #Sydney

A small boat floats on calm water under a pink and purple sunset sky with tree-covered hills in the background.
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📷 Photo challenge day 13: pathway. Calna Creek, just north of #Sydney. #mbjune

A wooden boardwalk cuts through a saltmarsh vegetated with tall saltgrass, leading toward a forested area under a clear sky.
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📷 Photo challenge day 12: hidden.

It’s easy to watch the annual ‘humpback highway’ whale migration at Malabar Headland in #Sydney - so you might easily miss this guy, who is looking the other way.

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A graffiti mural on a brick wall at Boora Point, Sydney, depicts a stylized skull surrounded by blue swirling wave patterns.
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Worth repeating and re-repeating:

“the evidence shows that regularising migration is a positive-sum game, in economic, social and security terms.”

The Migration Question | 2025

A definitive study of a hotly debated phenomenon: migration into Europe and America, its socioeconomic impacts, and the eternal policy efforts to stop the inevitable.

#migration

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📷 Photo challenge day 11: brick.

#Sydney has more than one Japanese garden, but only one is owned by geese.

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Geese are walking through a circular stone archway toward a sunlit path with a red wooden fence and greenery in the background, at Auburn Botanical Gardens in Sydney.
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📷 Photo challenge, day 10: rail.

Of the many wonderful exhibits at the NSW Rail Museum, this little railbus is one of my favourites. Though small, it still gets a Wikipedia entry.

#mbjune #Sydney #railwayheritage

A vintage green and cream streamlined railbus is parked inside the NSW Rail Museum train shed.
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📷 Day 9: wood. There’s a truly massive amount of timber in the old wharves around Sydney Harbour. #mbjune #Sydney.

See the whole photogrid.

A boat is docked near a wooden pier, with a large arch bridge visible in the background under a sky with scattered clouds.
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A search for meaning in the palace of lost memories: Thoughts on Piranesi, a novel by Susanna Clarke

Susanna Clarke’s novel Piranesi has got me thinking about memory, identity, the fallibility of writing, and the paradox that intrinsic value might be created rather than found

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📷 Photo challenge day 8: travel. Most of the photos this month are of #Sydney, but given today’s theme, this was taken as far from Sydney as it’s possible to get. #mbjune

A farm gate leads to green fields in the Scottish highlands. Two bicycles lean against a wall in the foreground.