Flinders Motel, Wollongong

The Flinders Motel in Wollongong sits on a street within the Wollongong CBD area, the building two-storey brick with the room doors opening onto continuous balcony walkways at each floor. The brick is dark, the trim a contrasting cream along the eaves and the balustrade. A pole sign at the kerb carries the property name in a serif face on a backlit cream panel; the lettering references Matthew Flinders, the early-nineteenth-century navigator who charted the Australian coastline including the Illawarra. The carpark is empty in the late evening. A row of metal-framed chairs sits along the upper walkway. A single security light at the office end throws hard cones across the asphalt.

The Flinders Motel Wollongong was photographed at 23:58 on 6 April 2018, on the south-Wollongong run of Hotel Motel 101, the last shot before midnight on the southern run's busiest night. The project covered 101 traditional Australian motor inns across three sweeps out of Sydney in late March and early April 2018: south on the Hume and the Princes Highway corridor, north on the Pacific, west on the Great Western. Drive-thru reception, parking in front of the rooms, low rise.