On the northern tip of the Balmain peninsula by the Birchgrove ferry slip, this narrow point stretches to within 300m of the North Shore. Once called Long Nose Point, it was a shipyard until 1971, when it became a public park. It reverted to its Indigenous name (meaning ‘swift running water’) in 1994.

Transportation

  • bus: 441
  • ferry: Birchgrove

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