A few weeks ago, on a beautiful autumn day, we decided we needed to get out of the city. Within twenty five minutes we were parking at the top of the Flint and Steel walking track at West Head. The track itself leads through a forest of Xanthorreas, along a path lined with she oaks (casuarinas), under cabbage tree palms down to a beach on the edge of Broken Bay. The walk has a number of rock overhangs and caves. There's no doubt they would have been inhabited pre-colonisation.
* Digression: Kate Grenville wrote an exceptional novel about this time in history, The Secret River, which was based on the Hawkesbury River, not far from Broken Bay and Pittwater.
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