BUNDEENA

Bundeena is in the Royal National Park. It is the second oldest proclaimed park in the world.(after Yellowstone in the US)

It is a beautiful picnic spot or a great place for a strenuous bushwalk.
The park covers 16,000 hectares of varied and an impressive scenery and in the summer months It is a riot of colour with more than 700 kinds of flowering plants.

Anyone can go Bundeena by ferry from Cronulla or drive through the Royal National park. The ferry takes just 20 minute.

Anyone can enjoy explor the upper reaches of the Hacking River.

The Royal has more than 150km of walking tracks with a range of difficulities and lengths. The jewel in the Royal's crown is the 26 km coastal track that stretches from Bundeena to Otford in the south.
There is a very beautiful beach in Bundeena, which is called Jibbon beach.

The local people is called Dharawal. Aboriginal rock engravings made by the Dharawal, who lived in the Bundeena area up to 5,000 years ago.
If anybody wants to find the engravings, have to walk the length of the beach to the rock platform where a short track leads to the site.

The Bundeena- Maianbar Heritage Walk is a self-guided walking track with signs highlighting many fascinating points about the areas past and its unique plants and wildlife.

The first stage starts at Bundeena wharf, at the steps to the right of the waiting shed.

Anyone wants to get explorations, Bundeena is the choice to discover.

ABOUT ARTICLE

This article is called History set in stone.It was published on September 7, 2007 in the paper.I have recently visited in Jibbon Head, Bundeena.

Everyone can go Bandina by ferry from Cronulla or drive through the Royal National park to this charming outpost.

The local people is called Dharawal.The local people used to swim, fish, make canoes from bark,carv etc.

The beach is called Jibbon beach.I can see a huge sandstone. Outcrop with carvings that include a local mummager (law given), a stingray, a killer whale more than 11 metres long, a tutle, a kangaroo and a murrera.