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Fascinated by our local fungi?  Join us at the Hawkesbury Duck for a fungi forage and painting workshop. Learn about the many forms, secret underground life and improbable history of the humble mushroom. Fun workshop with artist and designer Leonie Loewe - techniques of watercolour and shading and how to create finished fungus watercolours. ​

All materials, morning tea, lunch and afternoon reviver included.

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Ticket Price: $145 + Booking Fee

A new revised and even better Voices from the Secret River - Save the Date - 26th April 2026. 

Adventure into the heart of Hawkesbury sandstone country with like-minded others. Starting with morning tea at a Hawkesbury River cafe we set out to the valley and gradually ascend through gullies amongst honeycomb caves to Flat Rocks Ridge engravings. On the way identifying the spectacular wild flowers​, majestic water gums and angophoras. Hear about the histories of Gunderman and Mill Creeks and McCarthy's explorations of these open air galleries with Paddy Pallin in the 1940s.  

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Ticket Price: $85 + Booking Fee

A one-day excursion focussed on the rocks and landscape of Sydney’s Sandstone Country with geologist Gil Jones. The tour will take us on foot up Devine’s Hill - the ascent of the Convict Road immediately north of Wisemans Ferry - which offers a continuous cutting through sandstone with characteristics that reveal its origin in Gondwana more than 200my ago. We then travel along the ridge-top track of Finch’s Line which has panoramic views over the Hawkesbury landscape to the Blue Mountains to hear about a landscape which has evolved in the last 100my.

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Ticket Price: $85 + Booking Fee​​​​

A half day meander through the wonders of McPherson State Forest along bush tracks of waratahs and gymea lilies. Hear about histories of Kulnura 'up in the clouds' and the evidence of indigenous occupation around the forest. An immersion amongst the yellows, blues, pinks and whites of our spring flowers. Waratahs are blooming and lyre birds are calling!. Join us for a special botanical, nature and history experience.  

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​Meet for morning tea in Kulnura and travel together in convoy to the start of the adventure.​​​​​​​

Ticket Price: $65 + Booking Fee​​

Join us for an Acoustic Life of the River on the waterways of the Hawkesbury River. Step aboard a river boat for pop-up performances on the boat and foreshore including Irish harp, floating storyteller and poetry slam; shanty singers and more wild musicians. Departing from Spencer and alighting at a water only access location for music, yarns and tall stories.

A Central Coast Lakes Festival event.​

Celebrating the waterways of the Central Coast Hawkesbury River.