Time and Tide: Spencer Heritage Adventure Day. Adventure #05

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Time and Tide: History Adventure Day - 4 events.

Adventure 05:  Explore + Platter + Cruise + Tour

Spencer on the Hawkesbury River

Time and Tide: Spencer Heritage Adventure Day

Enter into an enthralling odyssey in the village and waterways of Spencer with storytelling, historical yarns, river cruise and feasting.  Plus  antique road show, craft demos, live music with with sea shanties and heritage boats.

<h1>Explore: Self Guided</h1><p>Enjoy live performances; &#x27;antique road show&#x27;; exhibition, and historical encounters on the waterfront and locations around the village. </p><p>Bring your mystery object for valuation at Spencer&#x27;s &#x27;antique road show&#x27; by Hannah Clayton Atkin of Swan Deverell auctioneers. </p><p>Explore history at the Hawkesbury Duck museum - hear about where the dead were buried; what was on the colonial plate, and tales tall and true from another time. </p><p>Live music on the waterfront with sea shanties and wooden boat spectacular.</p>

<h1>Feasting on the wharf</h1><p>From the Deli - fresh platters and grazing table on one of Spencer&#x27;s wharves with magnificent views towards triangle island and the Hawkesbury River. </p>

<h1>Cruise: River Meanders</h1><p>Join us aboard small party cruisers with our historian guides on a trip into the past. Hear about the 1804 attack by indigenous leader Branch Jack and his gang at Mangrove Flat. Meander to &#x27;Gentlemans Halt&#x27; (reputed site of Governor Philip&#x27;s overnight stay in 1789) and past the site of the Green Man Inn built in 1840 and the small river only access community of Marlow.  Running alongside triangle Island we visit Ma Hanna&#x27;s restored boatshed (the last boatshed accomodation on the river) and the site of Curly Kneebones shipyard yard where he built commissioned boats for locals on the river including Harpoo, Opoo, Shampoo and his last trawler Mermaid - when the river was the highway.  </p>

<h1>Tours - Village Yarns </h1><p>Jo Henwood storyteller extraordinaire takes you on a mystery tour of Spencer village with yarns - improbable, fabulous and surprisingly true! Hear about the forgotten histories of the floating store boats; rum and resistance; illicit couplings and secret babies. Hear the latest at the local pub The Dunkirk Hotel under a Mangrove tree and local anecdotes from the Hub of the Universe. Enjoy stories from up the creek as you navigate through Spencer's tales of enterprise and feats of daring-do along the last frontier and hidden waterways of the Hawkesbury River.</p>

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