A Life On Pittwater by Susan Duncan

Author:Susan Duncan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Published: 2009-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

AUTHOR’S NOTE

I have not attempted to write a history of Pittwater. All I wanted to do was try to record a little of the beauty of the landscape and the spirit of the community where I am fortunate enough to live. I would like to think that this book might become a small legacy to future generations. A beautifully photographed, unfluffed-up account of how we offshorers lived, loved, played and preserved our way of life, at a particular time. I fervently hope nothing intrinsic ever changes here, and that the pressure to develop as populations grow is resisted with force and, if necessary, fury. So that one hundred years from now, people will still be able to board the ferry at Church Point and disembark at Halls Wharf to take a walk through scrub, rainforest and the twisted vegetation of the escarpments. To see wallabies, goannas, a python or shy black snake or two, kookaburras and a blue sky littered with clouds of white cockatoos. What I hope more than anything, though, is that a century from now, no-one shakes her head in despair and says: ‘Look at how they stuffed up.’

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