Illawong waterfront redevelopment

It's been a while since I last posted - I think I'm meant to blog regularly! We're loving living in Illawong more and more, the bush is just so beautiful and it changes through the seasons. The exciting news recently is that the council have widened their redevelopment plans to include the Illawong waterfront area (from the old boat ramp at Old Fowler Road through to Albert de Lardes reserve), as well as a possible boardwalk down Old Ferry Road. Apparently this is the only accessible waterfront in the Menai district. Will keep an eye on this, thanks to the progress association. Here's their latest newsletter.

Some more of the locals

Here are some more photos of some of the gorgeous locals (well we are all a beautiful bunch).... I'm hoping to record their sounds soon as they've been particularly noisy lately...

We've moved in!

Well, we finally moved in and have been busy unpacking. So we haven't ventured out of the house too much, but the suburb is just amazing. We feel like we are living in a treehouse - the kookaburras have come and landed on our balcony for food several times, and we've been woken up each morning by birdsong. We've heard cockatoos, bell birds, kookaburras, plus many others. The river keeps glistening at us daily, tempting us to go down and have a look. We have a little bit of bush in our backyard (really very tiny bit of bush) and the kids for the first time in their lives are enjoying scrounging around in it. It really is very peaceful and quiet here, and dare I say this publicly, I have almost been converted to living in 'the shire' - well definitely Illawong.

Walking around Illawong

We're looking forward to walking around Illawong. Each time we've driven there, we've seen people using the cycle/walking path along Fowler Road, but there's also some bushwalks, and general lovely footpath walks to do. Here's a video by a seasoned walker of walking from Bangor to Illawong.

First Impressions of Illawong

We drove around our new suburb (Illawong) today, getting to know the streets and enjoying the unique scenery of Illawong. Already we've seen a kangaroo bound across Fowler Road, bright red rosellas, and kookaburras on the rare telephone wires (all the services/cabling are underground, meaning that Illawong enjoys a bush setting with large trees that aren't rudely pruned). Here's some photos I took today around Illawong.... gorgeous.

About us and the Everything about Illawong blog

We are new to Illawong, and so will share all we discover about Illawong! We are really looking forward to moving here - Illawong is a beautiful suburb surrounded by bush and water. Discover Illawong with us!