tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28283796972676545402024-03-14T00:36:00.851-07:00All things WoyBroadcasting live from the Lion Island Bowling ClubUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger145125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2828379697267654540.post-54950068195883274772020-12-05T01:52:00.005-08:002020-12-05T01:52:51.816-08:00Strange monolith appears in Australian bush<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zZdmb5khQRw/X8tYU-lx51I/AAAAAAAAC6s/RAGrI6mmMbMkNklrRuJAps_RYVKsZrcwwCLcBGAsYHQ/s804/capture_001_05122020_204141.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="658" data-original-width="804" height="328" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zZdmb5khQRw/X8tYU-lx51I/AAAAAAAAC6s/RAGrI6mmMbMkNklrRuJAps_RYVKsZrcwwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h328/capture_001_05122020_204141.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Deep in the Australian bush a strange monolith has appeared overnight raising suspicions that it may be connected with other mysterious monoliths appearing around the world.<br />It was discovered 2 days ago in the sleepy coastal hamlet of Woy Woy after a man walking his dog stumbled across it.<br />"I immediately thought it was a UFO or something out of this world" said the local man who wishes to remain nameless. <br />Redditt users soon tracked down Google Earth imagery and discovered the object had sat there undiscovered since the late 70's and seemed to change colour every 10 years.<br />It's a real mystery said one local "It seems to be some sort of sculpture done by a local artist" <br />Redditt users claim it may be the work of prolific artist Sydney Waters who has made dozens of similar type installations in the hills along the east coast of Australia<br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2828379697267654540.post-28137701594750480512019-12-21T01:36:00.003-08:002019-12-21T01:36:58.606-08:00What ever happened to Spike Anderson ?Back in my early web days I bought the URL woy-woy.com and ended up teaching myself how to build websites and had various incarnations of Good Old Woy Woy in HTML back before web 2.0<br />Around 2008 I got onto the latest fad which was blogging and set up my blog All Things Woy and for a few years I blogged regularly until Myspace and Facebook began dragging people away from the old forum and blog formats.<br />
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<br />During this time I found a few other local bloggers and one guy named Spike Anderson who had a blog called <a href="http://woywoywalkies.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Woy Woy Walkies</a>, he basically walked down one road every few days and took pics of interesting houses, oddities and scenery and then blogged about it.<br />It was part of a world wide interest in "walking blogs" where people shared the experiences in different places, he blogged regularly and his stuff was always informative and funny and he gave me much inspiration for my own sites.<br />He blogged regularly for several years and had over half a dozen different blog pages, the last one dedicated to Woy Woy was called <a href="http://thisisntsydney.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">This Isn't Sydney</a><br />
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<br />In 2010 he regularly noted he was sick and sometimes there was no post for the week some weeks and then it just stopped.<br />There were some coding errors that got his blogs all out of whack and he was having trouble posting but judging by the comments left on some of his posts there has been no sign of him for many years<br />I have asked a few times in various web places about Spike but to no avail, his blogs are all still online today<br />A lot of people loved his work back then but it seems he may not be with us anymore and that's a bloody shame.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2828379697267654540.post-84346511542561653382018-01-13T02:42:00.000-08:002018-01-13T02:42:03.959-08:003 cool things you may or may not know about Woy Woy<b>1. The Ettalong Water slide</b> <br />Most people know about the water slide opposite Ettalong War Memorial Club in the late 80's but do you know where it is now?<br />
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<br />The tower section was sold to be converted to a climbing tower to a company in Queensland and the slide sections were given to a youth refuge at Somersby where it was installed next to a dam, from reports the ride was quite deadly and claimed a few victims so it was placed out of bounds , you can see the Google image below<br />
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<b>2. Patonga Station</b> <br />While researching I uncovered this article about the first proposed route for the nothern railway between Brooklyn and Woy Woy</div>
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...From this point the line takes a north-easterly direction towards Flat Rock Point, crosses the channel between the southern mainland and Long Island; thence across the Hawkesbury River to Dangar Island (37 miles [60 km] from Redfern); and thence across the main channel of the river to a tunnel through the cliffs on the northern bank to Patonga Creek; thence by a tunnel through the high land between that creek and Woy Woy Creek, thence across that creek and skirting the western shore of Brisbane Water, across Narrara Creek through to the village of Gosford (49 miles [79 km])...[</div>
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<b>3. The plot to blow up Woy Woy Tunnel </b></div>
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During WW2 with the threat of Japanese invasion quite real , a national defense plan was set into action</div>
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Part of this plan was to disable the railway system so the Japanese could not use it if they invaded along the coast.</div>
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The Americans were in charge of coastal defenses in 1942 and trialled demolishing railway tunnels with explosives at an old tunnel near Otford on the South Coast.</div>
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Explosives were lowered down an air shaft and detonated , successfully collapsing the tunnel roof , it was proposed to repeat this plan at several other tunnels along the coast including Woy Woy tunnel.</div>
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Small tunnels about 6 foot high and 30 feet long were dug above the main entrances to the tunnels , explosives would be placed at the end of each tunnel and the following explosion would collapse the main tunnel mouth rendering it useless.</div>
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2,400 pounds of A.N 60 Gelignite was stored in a magazine nearby to be used for the demolition of Woy Woy tunnel in 1942 , as the war in the Pacific turned the plan was abandoned and the tunnels were fitted with strong wooden doors and padlocked.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2828379697267654540.post-63819047668609610722017-08-09T17:40:00.001-07:002017-08-09T17:49:37.862-07:00Wondabyne RSL re developmentRecently a motion was passed at the annual meeting of directors at the Wondabyne RSL to allow re development of the current club site.<br />
After several bad financial years which included merging with the Lion Island Bowling Club Pty Ltd the club has no choice but to bow down to greedy developers and accept a new deal that will allow the club to remain open in a smaller format.<br />
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A new 80 storey residential tower is planned with a small club area at the bottom.<br />
"This will revitalise the local economy, especially my kids education expenses " remarked the site developer "and will make hundreds of short term jobs available to workers from outside the area"<br />
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A lonely workers memorial hidden behind the water tank on Blackwall Mountain , the scene of a tragic workplace accident that killed 2 local men ?</div>
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With the help of the Facebook group Good Old Woy Woy the mystery has finally been solved ....</div>
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The story goes that a crew of council workers excavating the rock with jackhammers for the new water tank created the memorial as a bit of a joke !</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The original first road into Woy Woy, connecting the town to Gosford and the mountain areas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was built in 1930, but before that it was a roughly made "goat track" that followed the course of the original trailblazers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On the morning of March 10, 1923, car owner VJ McKenzie, Erina Shire President CJ Staples and Shire Engineer CJ Fenton the set out from Kariong into the bush.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There was no track and they cleared the way as they went, cutting down trees and using them to cross small creeks when needed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Within three hours they had made it to the top of Woy Woy tunnel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Another two hours were then spent searching for a suitable way down and before long they were driving along the main street of Woy Woy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The occupants sounded the hooter on the old Buick as they arrived in celebration of opening the Mountain Rd.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Within months funding had been approved and a rough track was constructed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Most of the townsfolk were happy as this opened the town up to more tourists and land buyers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Most of them were happy, but not one man: John Bull.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">John Bull arrived in Woy Woy in 1919 and purchased 30 acres at the head of Woy Woy creek, here he set up a dairy farm and a sign on his fence proudly declared "Bull's milk is best!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">He also fenced off the part of Woy Woy creek that crossed his boundary, a local boat owner cut through the wire as he rowed up the creek.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Bull threatened to impound the boat as it was trespassing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"The local asked him where he got the rights to buy a waterway and left, only to come back and cut the fence again sometime later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The new road into Woy Woy also crossed part of Bull's property and he resisted the plans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Bull would argue to the local council engineer that they had no rights and would often rattle off many unheard of, and often made up, laws to support his case.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When this failed he set out with more direct means.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">He simply let his prize male bull "Romeo" act as sentry at the entrance to his property.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The engineer Mr Webber could do little but wave his written "power of entry" letter as the large male bull charged the survey party sending them up the nearest trees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The engineers soon learned to post a "lookout" while doing further work in Bull's paddocks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Bull had told Webber that he would forcibly stop any vehicle crossing his property.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Webber did not take his threat seriously until the road was opened.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One day a man walked into Woy Woy and told Mr Webber that he had been stopped in his car by an armed man and forced to walk into town.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mr Webber took the local police sergeant with him and went to Bull's property to find a barricade across the road.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And there was John Bull, standing guard with his Boer War rifle, medals and bandolier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Bull berated the pair and declared his rights before suddenly surrendering his rifle (which was not loaded) and declaring that he had served his purpose and his resistance was recorded by law which would aid him in further appeals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mr Webber then removed the barricade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Romeo later claimed more victims taking shortcuts across the paddocks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Years later Bull ran for local council and paired up with another local named Vlies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The locals quickly named them "Bull and Fleas", Bull was a large wiry man and Vlies was much shorter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">They held their first meeting in the Masonic Hall and a large crowd turned up for the occasion, most of them had come just for fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The chairman was a local by the name of Jerry Mahony.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Bull began his speech and frequently took swigs from a large jug of water, ignoring the provided glasses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">With each swig the crowd cheered and Fleas would raise his beer mug grinning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This caused the locals to yell: "Give Jerry a drink! Give Jerry a drink!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Bull held the floor for three hours until the crowd called out: "We've had enough. Give Fleas a chance."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Fleas' speech went for less than a minute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">While not the first ship builder at Blackwall, Rock Davis was certainly the most famous and colourful of the shipwrights that plied there trades around the edges of the Broadwater back in the 1800’s</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Rock was born on a ship en route to Australia on the 2</span><sup style="background-color: white;">nd</sup><span style="background-color: white;"> of June, 1833, he was one of 11 children.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">His father, William Davis was the first school teacher in the area and taught at the small school at Kincumber, the school was made from pit sawn timber and had a shingle roof.Rock and his brothers were apprenticed to shipwright Jonathan Piper who had a shipyard at Cockle Creek.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">After they had finished their trade, Rock and his brother Tom left Davistown to prospect for gold in the Ovens Valley, they were quite successful as they had arrived early when gold could be found 5 feet below the ground or lying on the surface.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">They returned to the coast as the gold on their claims became scarce and the goldfields descended into lawlessness, over 3,000 miners had died in the first 15 months of digging in the valley they later learnt.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Rock had always wanted to build a shipyard at Blackwall and set about acquiring the land for this purpose, a parcel of 13 acres at Blackwall Point was granted to him in 1852, later he also purchased another land parcel from C.W Cox and commenced operations there in 1862.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Timber for the first ships were sourced locally on the Peninsula , which had a variety of suitable trees like blackbutt, ironbark, cedar, beech, white mahogany and honeysuckle.The logs were dragged by bullock team to the sawmill at the shipyard, some logs were floated out of the back blocks via a small creek that is now a drain next to the Peninsula Leisure Centre.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Work in the shipyard began at daylight and continued until dark, after dinner the men would sit in the meal shed and play cards while the young apprentices were put to spinning oakum ( caulking for use in shipbuilding )</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">At nine o ‘clock the cook would throw a large pot of water on the fireplace, the ensuing steam cloud would scatter all.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">During wet weather work ceased in the yard and the men went hunting wild cattle on the Peninsula , cattle descended from the original herd owned by James Webb had roamed the flats for years slowly growing in population and made great sport and even better eating.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Rock later built a large roof over the slipway so the men could work in all weather ,the shed at 145 feet long was the largest building in the area at the time.It was built like a native hut from New Guinea , two giant poles were tied at the top and spread apart at the base , they were then hoisted upright by a block and tackle setup pulled by a bullock team.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">A visiting well known Naval architect remarked that he had never seen anything like it in the world , locals called it “ The Big Shed “</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Over 180 vessels were laid down at the yard ranging from small ketches to steam powered passenger ferries for use on Sydney Harbour , before the construction of each boat , Rock would lay down full size plans on the ground and work out his timber cutting list .</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">The launching of the completed vessels at Blackwall drew much fanfare on each occasion, usually a feast followed by dancing and drinking til all hours , local children were given sweets.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">The Blackwall area was a hive of activity with 2 shipyards, a sawmill, several houses and a store built, in 1875 a post office was petitioned for and built on the hill behind the shipyard.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">The first postmistress was Eva Davis, Rock’s daughter, she held this position until 1881.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">In 1893 a post office was built at Woy Woy to serve the growing township and the Blackwall post office was made an unofficial office, the location of this office moved a few times but it remained until late the 1970’s ( last location Trafalgar Avenue )</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Not only did Rock Davis build ships but he also put in place many wharves, bridges and roads to serve his business, he arranged for the transport and delivery of over 19 million bricks for the construction of Woy Woy Tunnel.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">On many occasions when disaster struck , a call was put out to the men at the Rock Davis shipyard and a boat was quickly dispatched to help those in need.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">Rock Davis died in 1904 and was buried at the old church at Kincumber, a specially made raft was made to carry his coffin and was towed by a steam boat from the Blackwall shipyard across the Broadwater with hundreds of mourners in all sorts of water craft following in an unbroken line.</span><br style="background-color: white;" /><span style="background-color: white;">A fitting end for a man who had lived and breathed ships for all of his life.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1927 work began on the construction of a basalt quarry and associated railway and processing facilities at the current tip site in the hills at South Woy Woy by Basalt Quarries Ltd. A gang of 30 men worked to make the small gauge railway that would lead from the top of the current tip area down around the hills to a crusher chute just above the current water treatment works at South Woy Woy.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This line was serviced by a small steam locomotive called " No. 2 " , the lower line to the rail head used a steam powered shunt to move the cars into position for loading.<br />Here the rock would be crushed and turned into " blue metal gravel " and the finished product would then be shipped on a second railway at the bottom of the incline to the rail head at the mouth of Woy Woy Tunnel. The whole operation was quite secretive and the council was upset the roads into the site were being destroyed by heavy equipment being shipped in.<br />Councillor Staples was most vocal about this and I suspect it was because he was still quite passionate about the road in this area as it was the first road into Woy Woy that he himself had blazed through the bush several years earlier</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The whole operation only ran for 2 years before the mine closed due to an underestimation of the basalt reserve and the effect of the depression in 1929 and was abandoned , a few years later gangs moved in and removed all the equipment , locomotives and they were sold off.<br />The gang removing No. 2 were scared the last trestle bridge would collapse when they finally brang the train to its head , so they connected ropes to the controls and led it like a dog across the bridge with no one on board , a sigh of relief was heard as it safely made it across the neglected rusty bridge.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There is still a lot of evidence of the mine today up in the bush at South Woy Woy , old rail tracks , the crusher chute , remains of trestle bridges and an abandoned skip carriage in the bush , the area is in Brisbane Water National Park accessed through Woy Woy Tip.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong style="background-color: white;">The story of Bungaree</strong><span style="background-color: white;"><br />Bungaree was born around the Brisbane Water area in 1775 and was a young lad when Phillip and his party landed in 1789 , he met Bass and Flinders when they visited Broken Bay on a survey expedition in 1799.<br />He was described as witty , intelligent and something of a diplomat and " smart enough to keep a foot in both black and white camps ' He was recruited by Mathew Flinders to join him on the first expedition to Tasmania acting as an interpreter and go between , upon his return he again acted as interpreter for an expedition to the Hunter River and Newcastle.<br />In 1801 he again sailed with Mathew Flinders around the entire coast of Australia mapping the coastline and returned to the coast in 1803 , in 1804 was was called upon to help quell an uprising in Newcastle and sailed there with Lieutenant Menzies , upon his return he learnt that his father had been killed by escaped convicts heading back to Sydney Cove , he was about 29 years old at this stage.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong style="background-color: white;">The Deception</strong><span style="background-color: white;"><br />Around 1815 Governor Macquarie gave Bungaree and his family tribe land at Middle Head in what is known as the Bungaree Farm Experiment and Bungaree was appointed " king ", he was given a gold breastplate which bore the engraving " Bungaree - King of the Broken Bay Tribe " which he proudly wore every day after.They were encouraged to learn farming and were given convicts to teach them, but they had no need for it as they had always found food on the land and went fishing instead - the project was doomed from the start. Bungaree was hardly there to help the tribe assimilate with the white man as he was again called upon to join an expedition around Australia for the second time in 1817 and in 1818 he returned to his family.<br />He was a well respected figure around the colony and was given a row boat so he could greet each ship as it entered the harbour.<br />When Macquarie left the colony for England Bungaree was given his old naval uniform.<br />Bungaree was around 45 by now and had achieved what no Aborigine or indeed many white men had at that age , he had made Aboriginal and Maritime history by circumnavigating Australia twice , there are places along the coastline named after him like Bungary North ( Norah Head ) and Bungary beach near Brisbane.<br />Governor Macquarie had scored a major coup in getting Bungaree to leave his tribal land at Woy Woy and it was made Crown property by the end of 1821. There were 3 land grants granted in the area , one of these to James Webb possibly a relative of Robert Webb the seaman who first visited with Captain Phillip in 1789.</span><span style="background-color: white;"></span><strong style="background-color: white;">The end</strong><span style="background-color: white;"><br />Sometime around 1823 James Webb settled on his land at Orange Grove and began farming and shipbuilding , local Aborigines were employed on the farm. Webb took a local Aboriginal woman named Sophie as a partner and they had a child.<br />Tribes from the inland were taking over the vacuum left by the displaced local tribe and began to raid the crops , so man traps were set to guard the crops at Booker Bay.<br />All along the coast tribes were being uprooted from their land as white man spread rapidly and they began to succumb to the easy pickings of tasty new crops and alcohol , also they were beginning to die en-masse from smallpox , the common flu and <i>guns</i>.<br />The last desperate years were marred by mass killings , crime and the slow death of the Aborigine population by disease and alcohol , one of the last recorded <i>corroborees</i> took place at Tacoma near Wyong in 1842 with only about 60 people attending of which about 24 were coastal people and the rest from inland , no survivors were recorded after this day until lost relatives of the original Broken Bay tribes emerged.<br />Bungaree died in 1830 and was buried in an unmarked grave at Rose Bay with the first of his 5 wives , Matora and his breastplate.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">Sources:<br />Admired by Macquarie , but ignored for a sailing cat - article by Tony Stephens - <a href="http://www.eniar.org/news/hist.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><u>link</u></a><br />The Central Coast and Lake Macquarie Aboriginal People - an article by Wayne Peters 2002<br />The Brisbane Water Story Parts 1 & 2 - C. Swancott 1954<br />The Sydney Harbour Trust - website <a href="http://www.harbourtrust.gov.au/index.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.harbourtrust.gov.au/index.html</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">The true accounts of the first inhabitants in the Woy Woy and Broken Bay area lay scattered across the country in libraries and government records , in fact our own local councils seem to ignore the real truth behind the disappearance of the local tribes back in the 1800's , for there is hardly any record of what happened all in one place. Our local area produced one of the greatest Aboriginal heroes ever - yet hardly anyone knows of him and his achievements and the Government deception that led him from his land near Koolewong to make way for the first white settlers in Woy Woy.<br />Popular belief the the Darkingjung Tribe are the coast's ancestoral owners are also mis-leading as they inhabited lands west of the coast bounded by Mangrove creek and Yengo National park , they have however assumed the role of caretakers in absence of any remaining local Broken Bay tribe descendants at the time. <br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><br />The coastal Aboriginal tribes were known as the <i>Eora</i> people and consisted of the Sydney tribes ( Kurring-gai / Carigal / Dhurang / Durrouk )the larger coastal Broken Bay ( Walkeloa clan ) tribes and the Lake Macquarie tribes ( Koompahtoo / Bah Tah Tah / Awakabal ) it is thought that they came to the coast as long as 20,000 years ago , long before the ice age.Scientists have proven that the Aboriginal people have been in Australia as long as 40,000 years and newer research is considering back dating that to 110,000 years.<br />The tribes were based on family groups and consisted of up to 30 people , there were at least 18 family tribes living along the coast and inland and at peak periods it is estimated about 540 individuals existed , the coastal families were located at: Kincumber , Patonga - Pearl Beach , Brisbane Water - Woy Woy - Gosford , Somersby Falls , Erina - Terrigal - Wamberal - Avoca , Ourimbah - Narrara , Jilliby , Tacoma , Tuggerah , Munmora - Norah Head , Cooranbong - Morriset , Mangrove Mountain - Kulnura and Wollombi.<br />The coastal tribes interacted closely with their Sydney and Newcastle brothers and meetings were held at special times in secret places hidden in the bushland along the coast , these places were known as <i>Bora</i> ground and were located near natural landforms like exposed sandstone areas with unusual weathering or tessellated patterns or circles of rock in the bushland , they were considered sacred and powerful sites , up to 300 people could gather in these places representing the various coastal tribes. One of these sites is located at Patonga and has a Council road through the middle of it , the same thing happened at the Bulgandry site at Kariong when roads were built in the 1920's.<br />The tribes around Woy Woy lived happily in the many sandstone caves and had a diet of local wildlife supplemented by the abundant seafood to be found in the waters , they made bark canoes to traverse the Brisbane Water and had a series of markers like road signs scattered through the bush and along the waters edge on trees and rocks that pointed to waterholes and tracks to places. They left many carvings in the sandstone outcrops around Woy Woy and traveled to Mullet Creek to gather ochres to be used in cave paintings and body decorations , a race that existed happily with no need or use for iron tools or the wheel , a race who had evolved over thousands of years and was still evolving at a sustainable pace until white man came along - it was about to come to an end very quickly...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong style="background-color: white;">Governor Phillip Arrives</strong><span style="background-color: white;"><br />In 1788 Governor Phillip realised that the land at Sydney Cove was not sufficient to support the colony for many years and as a matter of urgency led an expedition to Broken Bay to investigate possible farming land mentioned by Captain Cook.<br />On March 2 1788 in torrential rain he arrived at Pearl Beach an noticed it was occupied by many Aborigines , fearing them they slept offshore overnight before heading into Brisbane Water the next day , after navigating Half Tide Rocks and The Rip he entered the Broadwater and got as far Gosford before heading back to Sydney.<br />As he passed the head of Cockle Creek he saw an Aborigine who waved his spear and pointed to Kincumber and said " Kingcoimba ! " then pointed his spear toward Woy Woy and said " Wy Wy " which he knew meant black snake* and he agreed as it was a swampy low lying area , this first friendly meeting impressed him and was in his thoughts as he planned a second more extensive survey the following year.<br />The second survey explored Erina and Narrara creeks and well as Cockle Creek and Kincumber , Phillip and his party camped at Booker Bay overnight and were met by the local tribe who helped them with fires and gathering fish , at night they exchanged stories and the Aborigines sang the white visitors songs.<br />The local men were impressed with Phillip because he had one of his front teeth missing - the same as the Aborigines who removed a front tooth during tribal initiation , wherever Phillip camped overnight inside the Broadwater he was met by friendly natives and this again delighted him , he left Broken Bay to go on and explore the Hawkesbury River and Pittwater.<br />Also one this trip was a young marine named Robert Webb who was an adapt ship builder and seaman , he noted the Aboriginal canoes and marveled at their lightness and construction , he also noted that the hillsides were covered with trees like mahogany , cedar , beech and many other species suitable for shipbuilding.<br />White man didn't return to settle the Coast for another 30 years , the local Aborigines were safe for now...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In 1942 a single runway was constructed by the Australian Army at Lake road Tuggerah , this was part of a network of coastal landing strips that were used for emergency landings by military aircraft travelling along the seaboard.<br />In the case of an all out attack by the Japanese , these airstrips were also to be used as " dispersal " airfields , larger squadrons would split up and various aircraft would be assigned to different locations.<br />Plans were made to house 8 medium bombers at the Tuggerah site , the strip was to be used by the American Fleet Air Arm group called Fleur , based at Penrith NSW<br />Locals recall several incidents at the strip during the war involving military and private aircraft , I have posted an excerpt from my blog article on my site visit in 2008</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mr Lake was only to happy to regale me with his knowledge of the strip in the wartime years , it was built by over 100 men who had a main camp in Church Road.<br />The strip runs right past Mr Lake's backyard and he recalls many <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBY_Catalina" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: teal;">Catalina flying boats</span><span style="color: lime;"> </span></a>doing practice " bump and run " landings on the strip , this was to practice landing with the planes ground landing gear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">He also told me of a British aircraft carrier borne fighter ( possibly a Supermarine Seafire ) crashing on the strip one afternoon , with it's tanks leaking fuel and the locals being under fuel rationing , a few locals gathered with jerry cans in anticipation of some free juice.<br />The British Marines arrived soon after to guard the wreck and let the planes tanks drain entirely into the ground before the dismayed locals , " after that we didn't like those poms " Mr Lake remarked.<br />Another time a local in a private aircraft had to make an emergency landing on the nearly completed strip at Tuggerah , Mr Lake was watching him approach the field and was worried he was also about the shot down by the troops guarding the area , luckily they didn't but the plane rolled on landing and Mr Lake had to go save the unfortunate chap from the tangled mess of his overturned craft.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After the war the runway was built over on the southern end , the northern end is virtually fully preserved as it lays on land owned by the Electricity Commission and a local landowner.<br />It ran from Wyong Road near the soccer fields in the south , north east past the electrical substation on Lake road.</span><br />
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<b>Woy Woy Aerodrome</b><br />
During the early years of the Second World War an aerodrome was constructed on the Woy Woy peninsula by the Australian Army for the RAAF.<br />
Originally the airfield was designated as a dispersal airfield for the Schofields air base at Quakers Hill in Sydney, in the event of an enemy attack aircraft from this base could be deployed to the Woy Woy strip.<br />
The Schofields air base was home to the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm for the duration of the war, the aircrews and aircraft were from visiting British aircraft carriers that rotated in and out during the war years.<br />
As the threat of invasion diminished at the end of 1942 the airfield was relegated to become an Emergency Landing Ground, part of a network of coastal airfields that ran along the coast.<br />
The airfield at Woy Woy was originally designed to accommodate 8 medium sized bombers that were housed in "hideouts" at various locations around the main runway.<br />
A typical bush hideout consisted of a U shaped soil wall and suspended camouflage nets above the bays.<br />
For camouflage purposes the taxiways leading to the runway would utilise existing local streets, some new streets were constructed for this purpose, other roads had the telegraph poles removed to accommodate the wingspan of a large aircraft.<br />
Fuel dumps , anti aircraft positions and slit trenches were also planned for the area, earlier maps show plans for a second intersecting runway crossing the main strip from east to west.<br />
The main runway ran north to south from McMasters Avenue to roughly Oxford Street and alongside Trafalgar Avenue<br />
The strip was built in early 1942 by the Australian Army engineers firstly by bulldozing the area then laying down a base of crushed local sandstone , the main landing strip was then topped with a red gravel.<br />
Early documents hint that at least 4 of the proposed hideouts had been completed by the time it was inspected by the army <i>camoufluer</i> at the end of 1942, locals have also reported the existence of slit trenches dug in the area of McMasters Avenue at the time.<br />
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<b>Wartime use</b><br />
During the war the strip was used by aircraft travelling up and down the eastern seaboard for stop overs refuelling and emergency repairs.<br />
Locals recall large Americam bombers regularly landing at Woy Woy which would attract the local ladies much to the delight of the American aircrews , one such crew was so taken by the local hospitality that 3 of the men deserted the aircraft and stayed in town for several weeks at at house in Umina before being rouded up by the military Police, evidently they had sold their uniforms to the locals !<br />
Locals also recall many aircraft stopping fo repairs and there are a series of photos held by the local Ettalong RSL showing an Australian Lockheed Venture meduim bomber configured for submarine hunting undergoing repairs at the strip in 1943.<br />
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Interesting to note that there have been 2 large radial type aircraft engines dug up in the area over the years that may have been from these aircraft, it was army practice to bury such items after they had been removed and replaced with new parts.<br />
The land used by the army for the airfield was eventually returned to the original owners or sold off by 1949<br />
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After the war the runway was used by the locals for a variety of purposes, there were horse races and an annual motorbike race, many locals also used the strip to learn to drive on.<br />
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Aircraft also continued to use the strip, some local real estate agents would fly up prospective customers from Sydney and in the 50's Marshall Airways from Bankstown would also bring up aircraft on the weekends for tourist joy flights.<br />
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As the area became more populated there were more houses and the landing of aircraft started to become hazardous, in 1950 a Tiger Moth biplane was trying to land in heavy crosswinds and was blown onto the roof of a house in Nelson St, the pilot and occupants of the house (who were not home) were unharmed , the pilot did injure himself when he fell of the roof of the house unfortunately.<br />
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Co-incidently at that precise moment a delegation from Gosford had arrived by boat at Woy Woy Shire Council chambers to petition the council to retain the runway for public use.<br />
The runway was eventually incorporated into Trafalgar Avenue and remaining land subdivided and sold off<br />
The blocks were a curse and a bonus for buyers as they were well drained and level but near impossible to dig into for they were still topped with the red gravel and sandstone base.<br />
<b>The Mystery Fuselage</b><br />
Locals recall the remains of a medium sized passnger plane that had been stripped down to the fuselage that lay in the bush blocks near Australia Ave until the early 60's, some have identified it as an aircraft similar to a DC 2, there is no knowledge of the fate of this plane.<br />
<b>The Drop Tank</b><br />
Locals also remember as children in 60's the existance of a large military type aluminium drop tank (disposable fuel tank) that had been split into its 2 halves and used by kids to paddle about in the Everglades lagoons, this may have been a left over relic from the airfield.<br />
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Little remains of the airfield today as housing has now fully covered the strip, small park at Trafalgar Avenue between Alma Ave and Waterloo Avenue is basically the original runway surface, skirting the edge of the car park are remnants of the red gravel that can still be seen today.<br />
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In 2016 with the assistance of the Umina Community Group and myself the small park on Trafalgar Avenue is to be re named Runway Park , new play amenities will be added and it is hoped a small plaque with historical details of the site will be added in the later stages on construction<br /><br />S.Spillard</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2828379697267654540.post-37262983435515864002015-02-19T22:31:00.000-08:002015-02-19T22:33:40.405-08:00Lone dolphin enchants localsFor the last 18 months a lone dolphin has made the Brisbane Water it's home , why this dolphin has decided to stay here is some mystery as dolphins usually live in pods or groups.<br />
Evidently according ORCA the dolphin is a female and spends it's days swimming around the Brisbane Water and generally checking out the humans who live there as well.<br />
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The dolphin has a liking for people and has been photographed many times checking out wharf building crews and fishermen , one lady recalls fishing one day and not getting much while the dolphin looked on , after a while it disappeared and then came back and threw a fish at the lady in the boat !<br />
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The captain of the local ferry service reports that the dolphin is a regular attraction and will wait at Woy Woy wharf for the ferry to leave so it can play in the bow waves when it makes it's run.<br />
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Local kids jumping off Ettalong Wharf were thrilled when the dolphin dropped by and checked them out one day , it certainly does not abide by the 100m rule !<br />
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The Brisbane Water is a large inland waterway and was once home to dolphins long ago and it is a good sign that they are finally returning , we hope that our little lady will attract some male friends one day .<br />
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In the news:<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2828379697267654540.post-14040561025426874032014-10-05T18:32:00.002-07:002014-10-05T18:32:23.843-07:00The Milk Bar of Human KindnessLittle Davey came from a broken home in Ettalong , his mum was only 16 at the time and he lived in a house that partied 24/7 , often he would wonder into the local milk bar and the owners would give him whatever he wanted to eat for free , it did not matter how many times a day little Davey turned up the kindly owners would always stop and serve the young lad.<br />
That was years ago , little Davey has grown up , the milk bar owners moved on and out of town , the milk bar demolished for housing.<br />
Thanks to the power of social media these people were connected once again just recently on my page at Facebook .....<br />
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A new website has been established to document the wartime history of the Central Coast region , the site has interesting information and photo's of West Head Fort and Juno Point gun battery as well as a look at the seaplane base at Rathmines in WW2 - well worth a look at if you are interested in local history.<br />
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History and Heritage - Hawkesbury to Hunter <a href="http://4hresearch.weebly.com/">http://4hresearch.weebly.com/</a><br />
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Old Bob shared this wartime memory with the Elvina group just recently<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There used to be an aircraft spotting group at the school during wartime and
some time each week they would get together to compare what aircraft they had
seen. One kid was the butt of many jokes when he reported that he had seen a
Japanese float plane flying up the coast. It came out a few days later that the
Navy had flown a captured Japanese float plane up the coast from Nowra to Port
Stephens and return to test the observers for aircraft recognition purposes. Of
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This well produced video has been made about the history and construction of the West Head battery and includes interviews with ex personnel , the whole History of Pittwater series is worth a look at as well<br />
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Rain did not deter today's ANZAC marchers as they mustered at the waterfront end of McMasters road at Blackwall , by rough estimate I figure there was close to 50 or 60 lads there.<br />
This long time tradition started back in 1981 with myself and our band of mates who thought it would be fun to rough it straight over the top of Blackwall Mountain en route to Ettalong Pub for the two up games from a mates house along the waterfront at Blackwall.<br />
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For years there was our little band of mates always around 10 to 15 of us gathering to catch up but this began to dwindle as some of us moved away from town , a couple of years there was just a handful of us.<br />
We often talked about how it would be great to establish some sort of local tradition that would perpetuate over time , I don't think any of us could see what would happen in the future.<br />
Things began to change in the last 15 years or so , mates began bringing their younger brothers and people from outside of our circle , and those brothers brang their mates.<br />
The numbers started to rise , year after year now , the local footy and AFL teams began to turn up and our little band of original brothers became outnumbered by a new generation of locals.<br />
From those humble beginnings the head count at some recent marches has reached the 100 mark at peak , all by word of mouth.<br />
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What started as a beer soaked bush bash by some mates 34 years ago has become something that I am proud of having a part in , while not being an official ANZAC memorial of any sort we do pay our respects yearly at a raised flag in the front yard some long suffering persons house along the waterfront at Blackwall.<br />
I think I recall we spoke to them once and they were puzzled for years as to who we actually were , but they did say that they now raise it specially for us.<br />
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What we do celebrate is the most important value of being an ANZAC and that is mateship , year after year we have met there to catch up with long lost friends , some of those guys have passed away which makes the next march that little bit more important.<br />
I teared up today as I saw all the young blokes getting ready for the hill climb , a quick word was spoken by our long time march leader Tony about the origins of the march and respects were paid to a dear mate who passed away just before Christmas last year , his son and wife were there in the crowd.<br />
So there was just 3 or 4 of us original lads there today in a crowd of 50 plus , a decent turn out for the despicable weather earlier in the morning , I know Rusho organised this because that march is so much more bloody funnier when it 's wet and muddy<br />
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No doubt you would have read about the 2 young dickheads caught smoking bongs and spraying tags on rocks at Somersby Falls last week <a href="http://www.nbnnews.com.au/index.php/2014/03/25/pair-charged-over-somersby-falls-graffiti/">http://www.nbnnews.com.au/index.php/2014/03/25/pair-charged-over-somersby-falls-graffiti/</a><br />
While this was just plain stupidity and disrespect of the natural bushland in this case, I have a photo of some more graffiti of another type near the Kariong Glyphs site.<br />
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Here the line is harder to define , while the spray can works are more suited to urban environments and are some times called art , here we have something which is as not offensive but still is technically vandalism.<br />
The location of Mr Yabby is not known but if inside the national park this could be deemed as an act of vandalism.<br />
True it's not offensive and there are plenty of rocks about to carve on and it's not in anyone's face, but it is in Aboriginal lands and the Australian bush and shows a total lack of RESPECT for eitherUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2828379697267654540.post-73911334733935223042014-03-07T04:23:00.004-08:002014-03-15T20:07:33.751-07:00New Kariong Hieroglyphs Blog<div style="text-align: center;">
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I have decided to move all my Kariong " business " to a new stand alone site just to keep it a bit tidier , hopefully this will inspire me to do some more things with this blog.<br />
The new site has a ton of info I have collected over the years about the glyphs hoax and will be updated as needed<br />
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Please bookmark <a href="http://karionghieroglyphs.blogspot.com.au/">http://karionghieroglyphs.blogspot.com.au/</a> ladies and gents<br />
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During the week our orb chasing friends at Wake Up World and the Strong circle of tin foil hat fanciers published their latest finding. </div>
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Here was new evidence that would de bunk the hoax theories surrounding the Kariong Glyphs they claim.</div>
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A Statutory Declaration stating that a young lady had recalled as a 10 year old visiting the glyphs site in 1958 , intriguing but hardly earth shattering.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Part of the statutory declaration claiming the glyphs were sited in 1958</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;">Lets have a look at:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><a href="http://wakeup-world.com/2014/02/02/1958-visitor-to-bambara-hieroglyphs-refutes-official-hoax-theories/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://wakeup-world.com/2014/02/02/1958-visitor-to-bambara-hieroglyphs-refutes-official-hoax-theories/</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><br /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;">Bad Research </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;">" One of the most common hoax myth is the oft quoted tale of a ‘deranged Yugoslav’ who, in 1975, allegedly exited the ‘glyphs with a store-bought chisel in hand (minus a hammer), was then chastised by Gosford Council employee Alan Dash and sent on his way, unpunished, due to his limited intellectual capacity (the Yugoslav’s, not Dash’s). "</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;">The above statement is not correct:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;">1. NPWS Ranger Neil Martin was the person who caught the " old Yugoslavian man " red handed and confiscated his chisel ( which is now in possession of the Gosford Historical Society ) in 1984 not 1975</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;">2. Alan Dash first noticed the glyphs in 1975 after observing a man exiting the hole leading to the glyphs site, this man was living in the abandoned Gilford farmhouse ruins nearby.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;">He noted the appearance of more glyphs on returning visits over the next 5 years.</span></span><br />
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Source: Debunking the Gosford Glyphs <span style="background-color: #fdfefa; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">by David Coltheart in Archaeological Diggings Vol 10 No 5 Oct/Nov 2003 Issue No 58</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;">Quote " The remoteness of the site, "</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;">Often the glyphs are referred to being in a remote location when in fact the glyphs site is located less then 1 kilometre from the town of Kariong and 5 km's from the town of Woy Woy and near Gosford , less than 100 kilometres from Sydney.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;">*The glyphs are located and the end of a unsealed road and only metres into the bush, within 100 metres there is the Lyre Trig marker point which has been in use since the 1800's.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;">*Up until 1999 access to public traffic was allowed into Bambara Road and you could park within 20 metres of the glyphs site , due to large amounts of illegal dumping the road was gated in 2000.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;">* From Woy Woy road it is only a 20 minute walk via Bambara Road to the site</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;">* In the peroid between 1930 and 1974 , 3 families were living and farming along Bambara Road ( Cameron , Follan , Gilford )</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;">Quote </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;">" Likewise, the obscure myth of the unnamed students from Sydney University (or a nearby college) engraving all of these hieroglyphs in either 1964 or 1984 – or any number of other dates that have at one time formed the ‘official’ story – always seemed improbable. "</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;">Hardly anyone agrees with this theory , the whole idea is flawed and based on hearsay </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;">Archaeologist Dennis Gojack researched this theory:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;">"It should be made clear that in 1964 the Sydney University Department of Archaeology taught classical [Greek, Roman] and Near Eastern archaeology, which had an emphasis on Cyrus and the Middle East. There was a single newly appointed lecturer in Prehistoric Anthropology, Richard Wright, who had commenced a few years previously. The number of students enrolled was very limited and ancient Egyptian archaeology was not part of their curriculum, and neither was there any teaching in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs or language. As a student within the Department from the late 1970s I never heard about any such activities taking place from either staff or former students. "</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;">Source </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsecretvisitors.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F10%2F22%2Fkariong-when-were-the-glyphs-found%2F%23more-811&h=3AQGELO6t&enc=AZPZ1jKbhu5Sg9r-LLM9KNdVCar9yuIz_0nv3XOzxFGr-kFz3LnVIhe6W62-CLbS03k8ukOkaDZ8IshkbQMucsCLzwJKVSfgU1CT7_beLEjDPOUDJX0p_t_TNnKsOMTRnfdWlWZIRvFxKuNcMmSz2kEsyNbYrgYqrxJE04-0Sy6t4A&s=1" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://secretvisitors.wordpress.com/2012/10/22/kariong-when-were-the-glyphs-found/#more-811</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;">Why even bother discussing this and the Sphinx memorial , it is common knowledge that these 2 things have absolutely nothing to do with the creation of the glyphs hoax site.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;">The author goes to some length to state that this new evidence refutes previous theories and yes it would if it could be verified 100% , it would put the earliest sighting of the glyphs back about 15 years but still not prove who did them.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;">Quote " Those who claim it a hoax can’t seem to get their stories straight "</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;">I suggest that the editors of Wake Up World review their own research before making such fanciful claims</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;">So what does this supposed new information reveal ?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;">More than likely the whole document has been faked as Strong and Co have been caught out on a few occasions faking archaeological finds at the site and nearby</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.800000190734863px; line-height: 14.35200023651123px;">Can we trust the faint memory of a 10 years old girl from over 50 years ago ? How accurate are her recollections ? How can she be sure of the actual year she supposedly visited the glyphs</span></span><br />
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The new generation of cameras with built in panorama mode are perfect for capturing Aboriginal cave art in the sandstone overhangs around the coast , here are some examples courtesy of Bob Pankhurst - click on each photo to enlarge.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2828379697267654540.post-77823107202615974472013-04-20T05:48:00.002-07:002013-04-21T03:12:03.358-07:00Upsetting the Kariong ApplecartIt seems the Kariong fringe theory brigade are getting a tad pissed off at my debunking work , nearly everyone who sets out to debunk these dreamers end up using parts of my research and invariably I cop the flak via comments on my various pages.<br />
Which I don't mind because I can deal with the most persistant of internet trolls and freakos and have been doing so since the old Yahoo chat and bomb days.<br />
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It seems years ago that I was involved in a 24/7 chat room community that spanned worldwide , we ended up ( out of need for self protection ) becoming hackers and scammers , waged years long cyber wars with all sorts of nasty programs that killed computers and generally had a great time , met tons of people who became real life friends and got myself laid a whole lotta times to boot.<br />
So a few pithy comments on my forums / blogs etc doesn't ruffle me at all.<br />
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The other day I got called a troll , a first for me , a internet troll is usually someone who is annoying and persistantly upsets a discussion thread or community and is hard to get rid of , this comment appeared on one of Steven Strongs YouTube videos about his Kariong Egyptian UFO fantasy.<br />
I like to leave smartarse comments on his and others similar themed videos for personal satisfaction and the vain hope of getting some decent discussion happening , but this rarely happens..<br />
So recently I decided to change tactics and try to engage the fringies in an adult conversation but when faced with undeniable facts and pages of proof they would resort to the old psuedo sciences textbook of predictable replies like calling me some sort of government representative who is engaged to help " cover up " the Kariong story.<br />
One idiot even went back as far as the 1800's and because I am white and he was supposedly Aboriginal held me responsible for ethnocide and genocide because he was unable to answer my simple questions or back up his own claims.<br />
Now I get called a paid internet troll by some dickhead named James Edwards at YouTube which is just as funny as it gets , yes the guvmint pays me to cover up the real Kariong story ( I wish )<br />
So the white knight James Edwards comes to the rescue of the crying babies at the Wake up World / Forgotten Origins discussion groups ( I assume this is where they all come from ) and tries to put the wind up me by posting my real name and address details in the comments section at YouTube.<br />
I have never made my name a secret on my websites , sure I don't have it published anywhere handy but if you look around it wouldn't take you long to find it , I have privacy concerns so it's not going to be anywhere obvious.<br />
What was slightly worrying was that this idiot also posted my old home address online as well , they must have outdated info as my brother now lives there and is quite a lot larger than myself so they should feel welcome to drop in , meanwhile you can find my address in the local Whitepages Sherlock....<br />
Anyway since this Mr James Edwards decided to put some effort into cyber trolling I'd thought I'd look into him.<br />
Firstly I don't think for a minute that this is his real name , the YouTube account he uses is little over a year old and has no uploads , comments or anything of interest to latch onto except for the addition of his favourites list in his profile.<br />
It seems <a href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcM9eY9N6lXteUhxGCGjxDA" target="_blank">James Edwards likes to follow to video blog of a 15 year old girl in the USA</a> - enough said ?<br />
James Edwards also didn't know that publishing my details is an invasion of privacy at YouTube and it was deleted soon after I reported it.<br />
If you want to play games think of me next time your CD drawer opens by itself..........Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2828379697267654540.post-19807377419678124842013-04-06T18:05:00.002-07:002013-04-06T18:06:42.611-07:00The plot thins........<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Seems like that new carving we found a couple of weeks back is old news , I received this photo recently showing the infamous <a href="http://www.rexgilroy.com/" target="_blank">Rex Gilroy</a> standing next to it , Rex claims it is an Aboriginal carving of a bunyip.<br />
The photo was taken in 2002 and looked aged then taking the age of this carving to around 15 yrs + , it is quite some distance from the Kariong glyphs located near a man made drainage culvert.<br />
I'd say whoever was working on this drain may have spent some more time having some fun whilst handy with tools.<br />
Who knows ........Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2828379697267654540.post-76201236530795606332013-04-06T17:51:00.003-07:002013-04-06T17:55:31.748-07:00BootsKarma works in strange ways , after moping about for a few weeks missing my old dog I decided to browse through the dogs online at my local pounds and rescue organisations.<br />
So many poor little faces gazing up at the camera I was worried I'd come home with a van full of doggies , cost dictated that I could only afford one and after a couple of weeks looking I had narrowed my choice down to a couple of dogs.<br />
One was a female staffy that some lady was giving away because she had just moved into a town house , the other a roman nosed bull terrier that was being sold cheap because his owner was moving interstate.<br />
I decided to look at the rescue mobs website again late one night and found this little mutt named Boots.<br />
The photo of him basically won me over and I drove up into the Hunter Valley to check him out on Easter saturday , he was a bit bigger than I thought from the photo but after a few minutes I could see he was a good dog.<br />
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The rescue lady seemed to think he was the right type for my lifestyle so we loaded him into the van and set off home on a 2 week trial , poor little bugger slept on the back seat all the way home , I think he was glad to have some peace and quiet after being in a yard full of yapping dogs.<br />
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He's a funny mix of dogs , my guess is he's Border Collie x some sort of terrier , his body is all out of proportion with long gangly legs and a tiny head , but he is the most polite gentle soul.<br />
He's not used to being an inside dog quite fully yet , the TV scares him and he barks at livestock noises in some shows , the computer and my mobile phone start up tunes scare him and he don't like the heater at all ( yet )<br />
I think when the rescue lady rings me next week I'll be telling her that I'm going to keep him , life's too short.<br />
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