We must have slowed down a little here, because this time around 40 seconds have passed and we haven't moved as far along... but we have moved back in closer to the coast.

This time you can see Gordon's Bay (which I described in the previous image) much more clearly – it's the inlet to the left of the window frame – as well as the two headlands that make up the entrance to the bay that contains Clovelly Beach. Those are the unnamed (as far as I know) one with the car park on it nearer to us, and the disturbingly named Shark Point further away.

The large area of flat land toward the middle of the view is Waverley Cemetery. It was opened in 1877 when the Victorian attitude to death had moved from "find a place out of town and bury the graveyard as well as its dead" to "let us have monuments in beautiful places where we can commemorate the deceased". Bear in mind that transport wasn't as extensive in 1877 as it is today either, so there was a need for eastern suburbs relatives to be able to inter their departed closer to home. The local council run Waverley cemetery and its (ultimately) 17 hectares (41 acres) was the solution.

A lot of famous Australians are buried there, such as poet Henry Lawson, publisher Jules Archibald, swimmer Fanny Durack, poet Dorothea MacKellar, cricketer Victor Trumper and others have found their final resting place there. Who knows, maybe even Jack Vanny is buried there. Speaking of which... a subject that is talked around rather than of is the question of this being the "final" resting place for people. How can a 17 hectare graveyard hold the remains of city of millions of people over the space of what is rapidly approaching 150 years?

Nobody will disturb Henry Lawson's grave; once you have your face on the currency you pretty much have it made, historically speaking. (Lawson was on the Australian $10 note when it was still made of paper, but was replaced by another poet (Banjo Patterson) when the polymer one was introduced.) For the average Joe, on the other hand, you don't buy a plot in perpetuity. You buy a right to be buried for a minimum of 25 years, with rolling renewals extending leases of 99 years. 25 years feels like a long time... except I'm writing this 16 years after these shots were taken and from here 25 years back was 1997. For anyone over the age of 35... does 25 years ago feel that far back? So what happens after the 25, 50 or 99 year lease expires? It depends. In 2013 there was concern that Sydney was running out of burial space (and it was) so laws were enacted to allow graves to be reused. In some cases the bodies of the original occupants were reburied deeper with the new residents buried on top, in others any bones may be relocated to ossuary houses (places where bones are stored en masse). There are still some "blank" spaces in Waverley, believe it or not, mostly from people who bought burial licences but never used them because they were buried elsewhere, or just refused to die. Some of those are being reclaimed. But one way or the other... burials still happen here.

I did get a shot of Waverley Cemetery as we flew over it but it appears that the glass of the helicopter's windows blew out the exposure sensitivity and it looks like it was being shot through a nuclear explosion. I was too inexperienced to notice at the time and had no time to "chimp" my shots so...scratch that shot.

Again we see Marks Park (site of the annual Sculpture By The Sea) just to the right of the compass, and the world famous Bondi Beach beyond.