Dictionary of Sydney

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Berowra Waters

Far northern locality on the shores of Berowra Creek. With its restaurants, marina, car ferry, scenic walks and salt water pool, it is a popular tourist destination.

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Dust Hole Bay
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Berowra Waters

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2008

Berowra Waters was settled in the 1820s by timber-getters, fishermen and lime burners who mined the Aboriginal middens for lime. In the twentieth century, tourists hired boats at Rex Jones's boatshed and walked in the surrounding bush.