Journeying South

Australian Sojourn – February-April 2025 • Part 4

I spent about four hours yesterday morning at Sydney’s Central Station. I’d arrived there from Port Macquarie via a Greyhound bus, one that I boarded at 1:45 a.m.

From Sydney I caught the southbound XPT to Goulburn, the Southern Tablelands city where I lived and taught for six years before relocating to the U.S. in 1994.

I didn’t sleep a wink on the Greyhound from Port Macquarie to Sydney, and it kinda shows on my face in the picture at right. While biding my time at Central I took a few pics of the 119-year-old Sydney landmark. I share these this evening along with a couple of images from the arduous Greyhound bus ride that brought me south to Sydney.

Above: The Port Macquarie Coach Terminal in Gordon Street at 1:30 a.m., Wednesday, March 12, 2025.

Above: The BP service centre in the New South Wales Mid North Coast town of Bulahdelah, where the Greyhound bus stopped at around 5:00 a.m. for a 40 minutes rest stop.

Above: About to enter Sydney’s Lane Cove Tunnel – Wednesday, March 12, 2025. That’s the arch of the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge in the distance, along with the highrise buildings of the city’s central business district (CBD).

Above: The clock tower of Sydney’s Central Station, the largest railway station in Australia.

NEXT:
Goulburn

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Central Station (2023)

For previous Sydney-related Wild Reed posts, see:
• Sydney Sojourn (2010)
• An Afternoon on the Harbour (2012)
• Return to Oz. . . Sydney to Be Exact (2014)
• Sydney and the Blue Mountains (2015)
• Sydney’s Eastern Beach Suburbs (2015)
• A Visit to the Art Gallery of New South Wales (2017)
• A Visit to Sydney’s Taronga Zoo (2017)
• In Coogee, A Very Special Birthday Celebration (2017)
• Return to Sydney (2017)
• Hello Australia Autumn (2024)
• Last Days in Australia (2024)