Steam Launch Lady Hopetoun | Jacaranda Cruises

EVENT DETAILS:   

Every spring our VIP steamer Lady Hopetoun cruises the lower Lane Cove River so that you can view the purple tide of Jacaranda trees blooming in the gardens of Hunters Hill and the North Shore. These gardens seen from the water give you an uninterrupted view of the shoreline as it was envisaged by some of the founding fathers of Hunters Hill, the Joubert's, who handed out trees in the 1860’s for the early inhabitants to plant in their gardens to enhance the new suburb.  

Jacaranda Cruises runs the  last week of October and the first two weeks of November.

Highlights:  

• Discover the hidden winding entrance to the Lane Cove River and the Humbug. 

• We pass Northwood Bay a favourite subject of Lloyd Rees paintings. 

• See Mary Reibey’s Figtree house still standing on the bank of the river. 

• Hear about the ongoing conflict between convict sawmillers and farmers and the Aboriginal resistance fighters. 

• We visit Woolwich where the change from a heavily industrialised harbour shoreline to public parks and premier residential areas has left sites such as Mort’s Dock cut into the sandstone cliffs. 

EVENT INFORMATION: 

Morning Check-In: 11.00am for a 11.30am start 

Afternoon Check-In:  12.45pm for a 13.15pm start 

Meeting Point: At the two anchors outside the main entrance of the Australian National Maritime Museum.  

The tour finishes back at the Australian National Maritime Museum wharf. 

TRANSPORT: 

• Walk from Town Hall station across the historic Pyrmont Bridge (15 min). 

• Darling Harbour ferry from Wharf 5 at Circular Quay and alight at Pyrmont Bay. 

• Light Rail L1 from Central station and alight at Pyrmont Bay. 

• Bus No 389 which runs from Bondi Junction to Pyrmont and goes through the city via Park St close to George Street and the Town Hall. Alight at Star Casino (5 min 
  walk to Museum)

• Parking at Harbourside Car Park, Murray Street.  

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