Cockatoo Island Paddle

Started at Rodd Point where the Rodd family mausoleum is located. The Rodd's were one of the first settlers in the area. The bodies were moved to rookwood cemetery in 1903. Rodd Island is in Iron Cove just off Rodd Park, Fivedock

 The Iron Cove Bridge.

 Snapper Island

 Spectacle Island, which is controlled by the navy.

 The view from Spectacle Island looking over Cockatoo island to the Harbour Bridge.

 Cranes and docks of Cockatoo Island.

 

 

 Stopped on the island for lunch and looked across to the Gladesville Bridge.

 

 

Jerusalem Bay

Jerusalem Bay is a long narrow bay that runs off Cowan Creek, a tributary of the Hawkesbury River. To walk in is a 2.5klm walk from Cowan railway Station and is actually part of the Great North Walk. You can continue on to Brooklyn from here.

 Peaceful and pretty at any stage of the tide.

 

Dunn's Swamp

Dunns Swamp is a dam on the Cudgegong River on the western side of Wollemi National Park about 20
minutes drive from Kandos or Rylestone.
 

 

 

This area is in "pagoda country" where bands of ironstone on top of the sandstone cause erosion to form distinctive pagoda shaped outcrops.

The pagodas are easily accessible from the camping/picnic area.

 

 

 

Maitland Bay

Sydney skyline from the Mt Bouddi track before you drop down to Maitland Bay The rock shelf at the northern point of the ay at low tide.

 The bay is named after the P.S. Maitland which broke in two on the bombora just off the bay in a gale in May 1898. 15 passengers and 12 crew died with 36 being rescued.  Little remains of the wreck today.

 View back along the beach from the steep climb out of the bay.

The northern headland and the bay from an earlier walk. 

Recent Birds

Bell Miner Pacific Black Duck

Supurb Wren

 White cheeked Honeyeater

 Golden Whistler

 female Spotted Pardolote

 Male Spotted Pardolote

 Scarlet Honeyeater

 Pied Cormorant

 Eastern Reef Egret

 

Crackneck

Regular walk from Forresters Beach to Crackneck at Bateau Bay. Looking south to Terrigal from the television tower at Forresters Beach.

 Looking north to Shelley Beach from Crackneck at Bateau Bay

 Little Wattlebird at Crackneck.

 Surfers under the headland.

  The purpose of the walk. Humpback Whales heading north.

 A fair way out to sea today.