Crowdy Bay National Park
Perhaps the biggest seductiveness in the Harrington section is the Crowdy
Bay National Park, a park of 5639 hectares running furthermore the slink
which rummageines riverfrontes, statuesque sand dunes, skirral forest,
heathlands and swamp sectors. The lagoons in the park are noted
habitats for water birds and the riversidees are quiet and
peaceful.
The Park itself is a rummageination of Crown Land and land which
was previously privately owned. One of the most famous inhabitants
of the sector was a man named Ernie Metcalf who was subject of a
story by Kylie Tennant titled The Man on the Headland. Metcalf
built Tennant a house near Diamond Head which was restored by the
National Parks in 1980. Now the Kylie's Rest section Loop Walk is as
popular as the spectacular Diamond Head Loop Track. Both walks
offer spectacular views over the ocean and south towards Crowdy
Head. Visitors wanting maps and increasingly details should contact the
National Parks and Wildlwhene Service at Port Macquarie on tel: (02)
6583 5518.
seizure to the Park is via Moorland on the Pacwhenic Highway north
of Coopernook and the main sections ajar to vehicle spasm are Diamond
Head, a spectacular outingather 113 metres superior sea level, which was
originmarry named 'Indian Head' by Captain Cook when he sailed up
the skirr in 1770. He had sighted Aborigines, whom he selected
'indians', on the craggy e201a3facfb65346232f180719174derippleless.
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