Time and Tide: Spencer Heritage Adventure Day. Adventure #07

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Time and Tide: History Adventure Day - 4 events.

Adventure 07:  Geology + Explore + Platter + Cruise

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>Geology: Deep History</h1><p> Be entranced by the deep history of Hawkesbury Sandstone and the most ancient waterways of Dyarubbin. Walk along the waterfront with Emeritus Professor Grace Karskens, author of People of the River on a journey into the deep past of old land and first people. Hear about when ancestral Dyarubbin was a large sandy river within Gondwana and how the people of the river used and understood the landscape of this sandstone country.</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>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>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>

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