Parramatta Hills - Meeting & talk: Walking the Cumberland Plain

Peter Ridgway will talk about his experiences walking 179 km across the Cumberland Plain in 2019.  

Carrying his food and water and camping under the stars, he crossed one of the least-known landscapes in Australia, all within view of its largest city. This was a unique journey across a landscape few Australians will ever see. In this open country the familiar forests of Sydney's sandstone are replaced by a fertile world of open woodlands, native grasslands and wetlands, home to some of the Nation's most unique and endangered wildlife. The traditional land of the Darug, Gundungurra, and Dharawal peoples, and the birthplace of the first Australian colony, it is a landscape which also holds the key to our entwined and conflicted origins. What was once a limitless tract of woodland is now being engulfed by the city to its east in the largest construction project ever undertaken in the Southern Hemisphere - the elimination of an ecosystem and a community.

All welcome.

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