Bart Bear's Blog

All along the cliffs near the entry to Sydney harbour you can find the remains of old gun positions. They date from the Crimean War to World War 2. All that remains of most of them are the concrete pits where the guns were mounted. In a very few places a gun has been left as a memorial. Some of the sites are in bushland and a bit hard to find, some of them are in a park, like this one. If you look carefully you can sometimes find interesting remains like the thing in the bottom picture. This is the entry to the gun pit near the Sydney Pilot Station. It is about 100 metres back from the cliff and hidden in low scrub. Inside the steel doors steps take you down into a tunnel that runs to the gun site. At least that's what they tell me. I couldn't check it out because the doors are padlocked, the place is full of spider webs, and Mum wouldn't let me try. If you have a spare day in Sydney you can have a fun day finding these old military sites on the headlands on both sides of the harbour entry.

Labels: New South Wales, Sydney