first train ride for brompton

1033: on the train with Brompton. I've packed water, snacks & swimmers, but really I'm just on a mission to enjoy the ride. 
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Riding the breakwall into the Tasman Sea besides the harbour. 
Looking back towards Nobbies, commonly believed to be a headland, but really an island adjoined by a  manmade spit. In the early days ships cutting inside the island typically ran aground, hence the spit. Not only linking the island & its lighthouse with the land, the  served as a useful fortification to defend the harbour. During the 1930s Depression the government established a  shantytown for unemployed men. More recently homeless people set up shanties in nearby scrubby dunes, but today's government sent the packing.   
The King Edward Park rotunda. Many rotunda people were seen too. 
Steps leading to The Bogey Hole; a swimming pool hewn by prisoners for a Colonial Governor. Participation was compulsory. Today I saw Muslim women on the steps, sans hijab for beauty photos. 
 Brommy in tame mode on the return train. 
Result: 10/10 

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