Time and Tide: Spencer Heritage Adventure Day. Adventure #06

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Time and Tide: History Adventure Day - 4 events.

Adventure 06:  Cruise + Platter + Explore + Burlesque

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>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 'Gentlemans Halt' (reputed site of Governor Philip'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'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>Feasting on the wharf</h1><p>From the Deli - fresh platters and grazing table on one of Spencer's wharves with magnificent views towards triangle island and the Hawkesbury River. </p>

<h1>Explore: Self Guided</h1><p>Enjoy live performances; 'antique road show'; exhibition, and historical encounters on the waterfront and locations around the village. </p><p>Bring your mystery object for valuation at Spencer's 'antique road show' 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>Burlesque: History with a Twist</h1><p>Witness the delightful debauchery and transformation of the good woman of Popran Creek, Mary Murphy. Proper upright housekeeper and devout mother during the day and by night sassy minx makes her extravagant entrance to the shores of Mangrove Creek. Bringing the underbelly of history up the creek alive in another dimension we travel back to meet Mary Murphy in a theatrical extravaganza by supremo burlesque artist Sophie Cook aka Legs 11.11 for History with a twist. Be ready to be educated, enthralled, and entertained.</p>

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