Point 2 Point

White Horse Point

White Horse Point Visited in on 28 June 2009 Comment View on map -33.85290923302123;151.17149144411087

Looking south-west to Sommerville Point.
Looking south-west to Sommerville Point (middle distance) and Iron Cove Bridge.
Looking south-west to Sommerville Point (middle distance) with Iron Cove Bridge and Birkenhead Point in the distance.
Looking north to Cockatoo Island.
Looking north-west with Hunters Hill across the water.
Looking east-south-east to Dawn Fraser Pool.
Dawn Fraser Pool.
Looking north-east to Robinsons Point, Birchgrove. The ridge of Manns Point is at top left near the white spinnaker, with Greenwich and Crows Nest in the distance.
Looking north-east to Robinsons Point (middle distance) with Manns Point behind (point obscured) with apartments of Crows Nest and Greenwich on the ridge.

The interesting name for this point has two stories attached. The bushranger who became Captain Thunderbolt escaped from the prison on Cockatoo Island and swam to this point where his girl had a white horse waiting to make their escape to New England (country NSW). The less glamorous story is the old ‘let’s name the point after the shape of a rock’ theory (a la Pulpit Point, Quakers Hat, etc).

Good family point, lots of facilities, plus the Dawn Fraser Pool for a harbourside dip sans shark.

Sommerville Point

Sommerville Point Visited in on 28 June 2009 Comment View on map -33.855078785809894;151.16873145103455

Looking west-south-west to Iron Cove Bridge and Birkenhead Point (center).
Looking north-west to Snapper Island with Hunters Hill behind.
Looking nor-nor-east across the Parramatta River to Cockatoo Island.
Pellegrini's waterfront restaurant.
Looking north-east to White Horse Point.
Paringa Reserve looking north-east to White Horse Point.

Modest point but does have a point-front restaurant which is a rare thing. Don’t know if it’s any good but it was full. Good views of ever-popular Snapper Island. Worryingly close to Birkenhead Point but we’ll let that go. Don’t think it’s named after Jimmy Sommerville of Bronski Beat fame … but oop, here it is, named after a town clerk (Mr A.W. Sommerville, 50 years service). Used to be called Fig Tree Point, but so was a bucket load of other points with a preponderance of figs. Thank goodness for dutiful clerks.