Give me a home among the gum trees: Lindfield

This instalment of Completing Sydney brings me back to the North of the city. 

Lindfield

Back to my old tricks, I was chaperoned by Sydney Trains into Lindfield.

Like many suburbs, the train line at Lindfield cuts the suburb into two. I had an appointment at the west side of the suburb but I thought I'd poke my head into the east side first.

The shops on the east side of the station have a definite "villagey" feel to them, with an interesting facade on their second stories.

Nothing here particularly inspired me (although I do think this church is quite nice looking) so I crossed back over the station to the side I was meant to be on.

The west side of the station is definitely the much busier side, with many more chain stores and the frantic Pacific Highway. 

I've waited for many pedestrian unfriendly lights writing this blog, but I think this one takes the cake. 

These lights stayed green to the cars for an eternity and a half, before I finally gave up and jaywalked through a gap in the traffic to make it across. 

I was now at liberty to explore some of the residential streets of Lindfield, but not before passing this awesome vet's sign.

I turned off the Pacific Highway to explore and wow, this suburb is bushy. It's no surprise that this suburb borders the great Lane Cove National Park

For the most part, the streets do feel like they just built a bunch of houses inside the national park and called it a day (and I guess that's pretty close to what they would have done).

On the map, I thought that Paddy Pallin Reserve here would be some sort of park, but nope it's just straight up bushland.

Bonus brush turkey pecking in front of someone's house.

I saw a fair number of quaint, cottage-type homes here.

But the suburb also seems to hold plenty of your more typical, slightly more modern "family homes".

Quick shout out goes to these people for their absolutely immaculate front garden. I'm talking hedges, pebbles, the whole nine yards.

This house is pretty cool too (would you call it a manor? I would like to call it a manor if possible). 

I also came upon this dog park which was fairly unremarkable apart from these cute signs.

I really don't have much more to say about this suburb. 

Lindfield: Nice homes for well-to-do folk who want to constantly have spiders in their house.