Point 2 Point

Named after HMS Sirius. Next to Sirius Cove and it’s attendant Park (dog’s allowed off the leash, beware of poo too). The Point’s not that little, but Moderately Sized Sirius Point doesn’t roll off the tongue really.

Also home to Curlew Camp, which was a camp established in the late 19th century on the eastern shore of Little Sirius Cove. It was home for some years to several highly respected Australian artists such as Arthur Streeton and Tom Roberts and it was from here that some of their most famous paintings were created. All part of the Curlew Camp walk that leads around the headland from Musgrave St Wharf (now South Mosman Wharf).

According to Geographical Names Board, more a ‘Head’ than a ‘Point’. Parrawi Head just doean’t have the power of illiteration we love so much, so we defy the Names Board and resolutely call it Parrawi Point.

Parriwi Head Light, also known as Rosherville Light and Port Jackson Entrance Range Rear Light, is an active lighthouse located just off Parriwi Road, near Rosherville Reserve on the south side of Middle Harbour in Mosman. It serves as the rear range light, Grotto Point Light serving as the front light, into Port Jackson.

It is one of four such lighthouses designed by architect Maurice Festu, the others being Grotto Point Light, Vaucluse Bay Range Front Light and Vaucluse Bay Range Rear Light. So there you have it, the lighhouses of Port Jackson explained. Sleep easy.

It was originally known as Billy Goat Point, but was renamed (when it was subdivided to be sold) as Beauty Point. Beauty Point probably sells better as an address than one about a goat… we’re guessing.

Nice bushwalk with lovely view around The Spit (another choice address name).

Named after a point in Cork Harbour in Ireland, from where the Harnett family emigrated in 1840. It is Mosman’s oldest park, once a whaling allotment. Some nice old photos: The Point, Mosman in 1917; bit more built up with ferry; view to a denuded Cremorne and Robertsons Point.

‘The Castle’ is a prominent landmark – of somewhat eccentric character – on the point. It is Mosman’s tallest sandstone structure, so, now you know.

There are a couple of pocket-sized parks, one with kids playground, the other with a bench with a view, so not a point for a day out but worth a stop for the views.

Between Chinamans and Edwards Beach, the most interesting point we’ve seen so far for the variety of its rock formations and patterns. Not that we’re geologists or anything but the wife especially likes rocks. “They’ve witnessed it all.”