If you haven’t visited lesser known Brodie Park along the cliff tops on Ulladulla Harbour’s north side for a while, mark December 8 to take a geological journey back millions of years.
Subscribe now for unlimited access.
$0/
(min cost $0)
or signup to continue reading
Brodie Park Time Walk, newly completed by the volunteers of Gondwana Coast Fossil Walk will stage its official opening that day and all of Ulladulla is invited, says their president Phil Smart.
Shoalhaven City Mayor Joanna Gash will do the honours at 10.00 am.
“Brodie Park is an ideal location,” Mr Smart said.
“The new walk provides a graphic record of the southern Shoalhaven’s geological history along a 250 metre concrete path, with boulders of significant local rock [forms] placed in chronological order and to scale.
“Each boulder represents a major geological event that affected the local region and contributed to the current landscape.
“Time Walks are only a 21st century phenomenon and currently there are only seven in the world, so we anticipate many of our guests will be unfamiliar with the concept,” Mr Smart said.
After the opening guests can join volunteers for informal question and answer strolls along the path, set in landscaped gardens.
Construction has been the Gondwana volunteers’ major project since October 2013, with funding support from Shoalhaven City Council.
Mr Smart says the world’s best known time walk is the Grand Canyon Time Trail that opened in 2012.
“It follows a path for 4.6 kilometres along the southern rim of the canyon and cost millions of dollars,” he said.
More than 150 official invitations to the opening have been sent.