Introduction - What this challenge is about

I love Sydney. It’s where I was born, where I grew up, and my home today.

When most people think about Sydney, they think about our iconic harbour, the great beaches, perhaps the CBD, but Sydney is more than that. Greater Sydney contains around 650 suburbs over 12 000 square kilometres. It’s full of people’s homes, stores, restaurants, offices, factories, parks, schools, universities, and God knows what else. It is home to around 5 million people from just about everywhere on earth.

Can anybody truly say they’ve seen all of it? Certainly not me.

I stumbled across a list of every suburb in Sydney, and I’ve realised that there’s a whole heap of places in this town I’ve never even heard of, let alone visited. That’s why I’m planning to visit, and share at least one photo of, every suburb in this city. That’s what this project will be.

I'll be using suburbs as defined on the NSW government's Geographical Names Register and will follow this great Wikipedia article listing the suburbs of Sydney.  

From each suburb, I'll share at least one photo, and give my thoughts. I also won’t use photos from previous visits. I like the idea of starting from zero and picking each and every place off, even though I’ve already been to a good chunk of these places some time in my life.

Part of this project is about trying to find something interesting in every place, and I’m sure for some suburbs that might be a challenge. I have no clue how long this will take, or if I’ll be able to finish, but at the very least, it’s an adventure.

Here we go.