The Bonny Port of Sydney – Henry Lawson 1905

Way back in 1905, Sydney Harbour caught the heart and the eye of Henry Lawson, one of Australia’s more famous poet and writer and was once featured on the $10 paper note in Australia.

In 1903 he resided in North Sydney where his closeness to the ‘world’s most beautiful harbour’ allowed him write The Bonny Port of Sydney Harbour.

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The Bonny Port of Sydney The lovely Port of Sydney Lies laughing to the sky, The bonny Port of Sydney, Where the ships of nations lie. You shall never see such beauty, Though you sail the wide world o’er, As the sunny Port of Sydney, As we see it from the Shore. The shades of night are falling On many ports of call, But the harbour lights of Sydney & Are the grandest of them all; Such a city set in jewels Has ne’er been seen before As the harbour lights of Sydney As we see them from the Shore. I must sail for gloomy London, Where there are no harbour lights, Where no sun is seen in winter, And there are no starry nights; And the bonny port of Sydney — I may never see it more, But I’ll always dream about it As we view it from North Shore. Henry Lawson, 1905	DURATION	2 HOURS	3 HOURS	4 HOURS	6 HOURS	8 HOURS
	Motor Time (estimate)	40 mins	40 mins	40 mins	40 mins	40 mins
	Sail Time (estimate)	1 hr 20 mins	2 hr 20 mins	2 hr 40 mins	4 hrs	6 hrs
	Anchor Time	Nil	Nil	40 mins	2 hrs	2 hrs
	What You Will See
	Harbour Bridge	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
	Opera House	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
	Fort Denison	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
	Athol Bay	✘	✔	✔	✔	✔
	Clarke Island	✘	✔	✔	✔	✔
	Shark Island	✘	✘	✔	✔	✔
	Vaucluse Mantions	✘	✘	✔	✔	✔
	Watsons Bay	✘	✘	✔	✔	✔
	Obelisk Beach	✘	✘	✔	✔	✔
	The Heads	✘	✘	✔	✔	✔
	Quarantine Station	✘	✘	✔	✔	✔
	Middle Harbour	✘	✘	✘	✔	✔
	Out the Heads (on Dufour 412 or Hunter 39)	✘	✘	✘	✔	✔