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In mathematics, a spiral is a curve which emanates from a central point, getting progressively farther away as it revolves around the point.

And that’s exactly what we are doing.  We’ll be spiralling out from a central point (Killara), visiting all the suburbs of Sydney that we encounter in the process.  After we have finished with Sydney, we’ll continue to spiral out until we have covered the whole of Australia.  The further we are from the central point, the greater the size of the target area – that way, while we are still within the city limits we’ll be able to visit all the suburbs, but as we get further from the central point, the granularity of the sections and zones is decreased so that we don’t have to visit every square kilometer of Australia!

There are 651* official suburbs in Sydney, plus a few localities that are strangely not considered suburbs, that we’ll visit too.  As you can see this is going to take quite a while, so this is a very long term project.

* According to Walk Sydney Streets (an amazing project, by an amazing guy by the way), there are 651 suburbs plus quite a few areas that are commonly thought to be suburbs, but that are not.  According to Wikipedia, there are 656 suburbs and localities.

Our goal is not to walk every street in Sydney, like Alan from Walk Sydney Streets’ goal is, but we will visit every suburb, and we hope to do this as much as possible on public transport.  We’ll also be taking photos of the area as we go.

The photos that we’ll be taking will primarily be of the nature of the particular suburb, but we will include photos of anything else that we find interesting.

Updates will be approximately every two weeks depending on what else is going on in our lives at the time, and depending on the weather – clouds and cold we don’t mind, but I’m not going to deliberately go somewhere when it’s pouring with rain.

The inspiration for this project came primarily from wanting to explore the city that we live in.  We came up with the idea for the project without knowing about other peoples’ projects, but clearly people like to explore Sydney as not only Alan from Walk Sydney Streets is undertaking a similar project, but we also found Louise Hawson doing an amazing photographic project called 52 Suburbs.  Her project was to visit a suburb a week for a year.  For her efforts she now has an exhibit at the Museum of Sydney.

You can imagine this project is going to take a long time.  In fact our calculations show that we should be finished (if we’re ever really finished) during 2019.

You can view our master list of areas to visit here.

List of Sydney Suburbs (visited suburbs are highlighted)