Topics: Sites: Paths/waterways: North Coastal
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Coal and Candle Creek on the Hawkesbury
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Coal and Candle Creek
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Coal and Candle Creek
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Coal and Candle Creek
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Coal and Candle Creek
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Cowan Creek
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Cowan Creek
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Cowan Creek
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Cowan Creek
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Cowan Creek
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Cowan Creek
1794 - view
Broken Bay, first charted by Captain John Hunter in 1789, now carries regular shipping on the Hawkesbury River between Windsor and Sydney.
1801 - view
At the Hunter
River, Bungaree joins the
Koories and makes his own way southwards to his country on foot.
1818 - view
On Bungaree’s return from the voyage, Alexander Berry cares for Bungaree when
beaten up by a drunken man, and writes “I found him a man decidedly of
considerable natural talent, faithful and trust worthy”. On his return Bungaree
finds that his family group has left ‘Bungaree’s farm’ at Georges Head for the
Northern Beaches. In this way they continue their long tradition of moving
about their country according to food availability, changing seasons, and for
meetings and ceremonies.
1821 - view
Bungaree
is living near Newcastle and his clan put on a “Kauraberie” for Macquarie
during his farewell tour of the colony. The Governor persuades Bungaree and his
family group to move back to Georges Head.
1830s - view
Until
the 1900s Koories travel by foot from Burns Bay, Narrabeen and Manly via the
Field of Mars camp to Cowan Creek camp.
1836 - view
Bowen returned to find his country much
altered with traditional coastal fishing grounds blocked off to them and
borders from farms and roads.
1840s - view
Robert
Pymble the elder related that members of a Koori clan periodically travel from
Lane Cove River at a point near Burns Bay on the way
to Cowan, ’by way of what is now known Cowan Road. They always break the
journey and camp on Wright’s Hill, near the present reservoir at Pymble‘… He continued that the hill beyond the present
situation is called by those campers ‘Turramurra’ or ‘Turraburra’ the word
meant ‘big hill’.