September 2020 report
Participants
Ron, Chris, Helen, Colin, Natalie, Peter and Richard just for Morning tea and lunch
The start
The group met on the waterfront next to the park to enjoy morning tea before setting off through the park
Points of Interest
- passed Cpt Cook’s landing spot and through a section of bush to see ‘the meeting place’ – of significance to the indigenous community
- passed the Visitor Centre to the Yena track and at the end of this, walk up the road to Cape Solander (named after a botanist on the Endeavour)
- Cape Solander is a vantage spot for watching the whales migrate north in June/July. Volunteers count the passing whales from here each year.
- out to the cliffs and the walk to Cape Bally Lighthouse. This was built in 1950 and has an usual concrete structure. It is still active. Natalie and Helen stopped before the lighthouse and were lucky to watch a whale on its way south.
- the wide spreads of wild flowers along the track -pinks, yellows, whites, blues – were just wonderful to see. The masses of flannel flowers were almost open to the sky.
- we walked back to the Visitor Centre the way we had come. Colin took a side track coming back.
- as we headed to the bronze sculptures we passed a new plover bird family. The baby was so tiny on its skinny legs.
- the bronze sculptures -whales, Nuwi/canoes and The Eyes of the Land and Sea (like ribs of Endeavour and the bones of the whale which is the totem of the Gweagal people)-were to be installed at the ceremony to mark the 250th anniversary of the landing of Cook and his meeting with the Aboriginal inhabitants. Due to Coronavirus the “ Meeting of Two Cultures Ceremony” was cancelled and they were quietly put in place. They have significance to both viewpoints of the arrival of the Endeavour.
- on the path back we passed monuments to other members of the Endeavour voyage – Sutherland and Banks-, the stream used for fresh water supply, the wharf and the old shed which was the waiting room for the ferry and lastly the monuments marking Cpt Cook’s arrival.
- or further information about any of the above see website Kamay National Park
The finish
- we had a picnic lunch back at the waterfront and then headed home
Distance walked
- from Endeavour café to the Lighthouse and back approximately 13K and 4 hours of walking
Participants
Ron, Chris, Helen, Colin, Natalie, Peter and Richard just for Morning tea and lunch
The start
The group met on the waterfront next to the park to enjoy morning tea before setting off through the park
Points of Interest
- passed Cpt Cook’s landing spot and through a section of bush to see ‘the meeting place’ – of significance to the indigenous community
- passed the Visitor Centre to the Yena track and at the end of this, walk up the road to Cape Solander (named after a botanist on the Endeavour)
- Cape Solander is a vantage spot for watching the whales migrate north in June/July. Volunteers count the passing whales from here each year.
- out to the cliffs and the walk to Cape Bally Lighthouse. This was built in 1950 and has an usual concrete structure. It is still active. Natalie and Helen stopped before the lighthouse and were lucky to watch a whale on its way south.
- the wide spreads of wild flowers along the track -pinks, yellows, whites, blues – were just wonderful to see. The masses of flannel flowers were almost open to the sky.
- we walked back to the Visitor Centre the way we had come. Colin took a side track coming back.
- as we headed to the bronze sculptures we passed a new plover bird family. The baby was so tiny on its skinny legs.
- the bronze sculptures -whales, Nuwi/canoes and The Eyes of the Land and Sea (like ribs of Endeavour and the bones of the whale which is the totem of the Gweagal people)-were to be installed at the ceremony to mark the 250th anniversary of the landing of Cook and his meeting with the Aboriginal inhabitants. Due to Coronavirus the “ Meeting of Two Cultures Ceremony” was cancelled and they were quietly put in place. They have significance to both viewpoints of the arrival of the Endeavour.
- on the path back we passed monuments to other members of the Endeavour voyage – Sutherland and Banks-, the stream used for fresh water supply, the wharf and the old shed which was the waiting room for the ferry and lastly the monuments marking Cpt Cook’s arrival.
- or further information about any of the above see website Kamay National Park
The finish
- we had a picnic lunch back at the waterfront and then headed home
Distance walked
- from Endeavour café to the Lighthouse and back approximately 13K and 4 hours of walking