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Date: 3 June 2019
Par�cipants: Chris�ne Paine, Tom Heinz, Sandra Bushell, Bill Hardy, John Maltby, Kumiko Suzuki, Jenny
Stephens, Beki Boulet, Carolyn Blake, Julia Stevenson, Chris Strojny and Prospec�ve Poly Graudins.

Then the rain came so it was a quick lunch stop as most of
Report: the group sca�ered to catch the next ferry.
Sunny morning for our walk through the green bushy
A relaxed walk with an interested group taking in some
grounds of the former Gladesville Psychiatric Hospital and
history of this lower part of the Parrama�a River.
Bedlam Point.
Pleasing Parrama�a River views were enjoyed at our
morning tea spot, Looking Glass Point.
Walked past many new “castles “of cement and glass in the
waterfront suburbs of Tennyson Point and Putney.

Glades Bay Park with the beautiful Wulaba Track to see
aboriginal carvings and enjoy the board walk through the
mangroves along the Parrama�a River. There is an
incomplete connection to Bill Mitchell Park so we walked
along a sloping sea wall.
Walk descrip�on:
Ryde Council has just
From Huntleys Point Wharf we announced they are going to fix
proceed on the northern side of this missing link of the Ryde
the river through bush, parklands River walk in Glades Bay. Then
and streets to Meadowbank there will be only one more
wharf or station. Passing through section to complete ....along
old Gladesville Hospital, Bedlam part of Kissing Point Bay and this
Bay and Bennelong's grave site. will connect the pleasant
Map: Parrama�a River walk Putney Park to Meadowbank.
Reached Bennelong Park, near
where Bennelong spent the last
years ofhis lifein JamesSquire's
orchard. He was also buried
nearby.

Report by: Chris Paine 68 Photos: John Maltby