Today's adventure - the Guringai Walk at Katandra Reserve.
I've done this walk a fair while ago when the track was open and regularly serviced. The next time I tried, it was closed until repaired. That was a couple of years back. The track hasn't been repaired but there were no signs indicating it was closed.
A short distance into the track came the first obstacle, which was a large rock fall across the trail. It was hard to scramble over the rocks because they were slippery. Other obstacles along the tracks were collapsed boggy sections, thickly overgrown vegetation and rotted above ground paths. Still, these were fun to climb around or bulldoze through.
The track itself is one of the best in the area. Most of the way is at the bottom of sheer cliff. This escarpment has an angle of 90 degrees but in some sections it is overhanging by 3 metres. A bit unnerving to stand under. The cliffs allow a constant flow of water to saturate the soil leading to lush vegetation close to the cliff face.
Just under St John's lookout, there has been a lot of rubbish throw over the cliff edge. Most stuff was light but there were two lounges and two large plastic garbage bins.
The end of the track was very obscured and required a bit of off trail walking to connect with the Mouat Trail.
A great hike and it was nice finishing it off admiring the view from St. John's Lookout
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https://nit.com.au/guringay-voices-heard-as-city-of-sydney-removes-references-to-ku-ring-gai-guringai/
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ReplyDeleteThe use of a word Guringai or spelt kuring-gai has no connection to Sydney, Gosford right up to Newcastle. Guringai is not the language group of the Sydney area or a tribe The words Kuring-gai changed to Guringai are not from the Central Cost or Sydney.
This fiction and claims has been going on for too long.
The Sydney Council have made change after it was reviewed by it researchers and has now removed all references , The Mosman and Northern Sydney beaches Councils has done the same.
NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service Greater Sydney Branch and Central Coast Area Hunter Central Coast Branch are in support and have started removing all references to Guringai on the south of the hunter River east coast to Sydney. (after it was reviewed by the Aboriginal Committee NPWS) And you have a confession by Mr Bimson!
Many Schools have now started removing referances
The Aboriginal Education Committee are in the process of correcting this fiction.
The Northern beaches Councils Mayor Michael Regan also in support after the tax payer funded report was published in the paper and the report by the Aboriginal heritage office –
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/northern-beaches/misunderstanding-the-historical-fiction-of-the-word-guringai-that-has-filled-a-void-in-our-knowledge-of-the-original-inhabitants/news-story/b1aec152c74220c535883621081a2fd2
Tax payer funded report
https://www.aboriginalheritage.org/history/filling-a-void-history-of-word-guringai/
The Real goringai peoples
https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2018/08/15/the-kabook-watoo/