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Harbour-gazing and celebrity-spotting at
Woolloomooloo Finger Wharf
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Kick-starting a night out you'll never forget (or won't remember) at the
Kings Cross
Explore: Kings Cross & Potts Point
The beginning of Sydney's Eastern Suburbs, the city-fringe suburbs of Woolloomooloo,
Kings Cross, Potts Point and Elizabeth Bay are a world unto themselves.
Kings Cross is a bizarre, densely populated dichotomy: strip joints, tacky tourist shops
and backpacker hostels bang heads with classy restaurants, funky bars and gorgeous gues-
thouses as 'the Cross' pumps 24/7. A weird cross-section of society is drawn to the lights:
buskers, beggars, tourists, prostitutes, pimps, groomed metrosexuals, horny businessmen
and underfed artists roam the streets on equal footing. Sometimes the razzle-dazzle has a
sideshow appeal; sometimes walking up Darlinghurst Rd promotes pity. Either way, it's
never boring.
Down McElhone Stairs from the Cross, Woolloomooloo has also cleaned up its act.
Harry's Cafe de Wheels and the drunken sailors are still here, but things are less pugilistic
than in the past.
Gracious, tree-lined Potts Point and Elizabeth Bay seem worlds away. Well-preserved
Victorian, Edwardian and art deco houses and flats flank picturesque avenues.
