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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.
This tour of Watsons Bay, takes in the colonial social history of the families who provided the pilot and rescue services, manned the signal station and lighthouse and fished the ocean off the heads.
While limited to 5 people, please contact if your date fully booked as I can often 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.
At Watsons Bay, which I regard as my spiritual home, I will take you on a walk around the two sides of the fishing village and then out onto South Head.
We will explore the history of the Birrabirragal people and the European settlers and their families who formed a tight community that existed from 1788 to the 1960s.
This walk has some of the best views of the harbour and city. I will show you one of the largest Moreton Bay fig trees you will ever see, and few visitors to the bay know about.
This involves a ferry trip to and from Watsons Bay at a cost of approx. $AUD14.00.
I will be out front of Wharf 2 at Circular Quay. I'll be wearing a bright blue Indigenous Literacy Foundation t-shirt of a blue Yindyamarra Winhanganha t-,shirt and 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).
