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No minimum number of attendeesNo minimum number of attendees is required for the tour
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Free booking and cancellationFree payment tour, no set price, booking and cancellation are free
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Retired from academic publishing and bookselling, I'm writing an indigenous and colonial history of Watsons Bay and conducting guided walks around the city and south head. I have been a volunteer guide at the Australian National Maritime Museum for five years. I have travelled extensively overseas and throughout Australia and New Zealand. I contributed to the SlowTravel site for over 20 years and published extensive travel blogs.
Free tour from the Town Hall to Darling Harbour, Barangaroo and The Rocks: Experience a Sydney that even the locals don't know about.
While limited to 5 people, please contact if your date appears fully booked. Often, I can fit you in.
I donate 25% of your payment to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. I expect $30.00 per person or $50.00 per couple.
The commentary I give on this guided walk is about the culture and structure of traditional Dharawal society, the colonial history and the industrial revolution in Sydney.
If you are interested in one theme more than the others, that's what I'll focus on.
Two of the Dharawal clans lived on country we will explore; the Gadigal and Wangal. We will discuss their lives both before and after colonisation (invasion).
Between 1788 and the 1850s, colonists persued basic activities such as boat building, fishing, milling grain and basic commerce.
From the 1850's Darling Harbour was the cente of the Industrial Revolution in Australia. It was a world leader in a number of industrial developments.
Best of all, this is a wonderful scenic walk with many photo opportunities, and I'm always more interested in what you want to know about, than what I have to share.
We begin at the Sydney Town Hall and Queen Victoria Building; two of Sydney's most stunning sandstone buildings. We then walk down Market St. to Darling Harbour, out to Barangaroo and around Millers Point to The Rocks.
Two and a half hours that you will remember for years. Phone, email or text me for more information..
I will be at the foot of the stairs of the Town Hall wearing either a bright blue Indigenous Literacy Foundation t-shirt or a blue Yindyamarra Winhanganha t-shirt and a black cap.
Free tours do not have a set price, instead, each person gives the guru at the end of the tour the amount that he or she considers appropriate (these usually range from €10 to $50 depending on satisfaction with the tour).
