Topics: Sites: Paths/waterways: North Coastal

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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

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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

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’.