gateway to great adventure. With the towns like Bellingen ,Dorrigo Nambucca Heads , Sawtell ,Urunga presents visitors with wide range of fun and joy of visiting southern subtropical area of New South Wales.
COFFS HARBOUR IN GARLAMBIRLA language is called THE GUMBAYNGGIRR means casuarinas . This three has many varieties in the are . There are types which grow in forested wetlands ,other in windswept headlands and some also grow in pleasant , well sheltered forests. The seeds of Casuarina , in its woody fruit are food source for black cockatoo. When in Coffs Harbour , visit to Park Beach provides opportunity to walk to the Macauleys Headland where mighty views of the ocean can also provide experience of observing passing parade of migrating whales . Here in this Headland , with whisper of the bush , swaying grasses and singing music of the casuarinas branches one can easily start to fantasize about dreaming story related to giant goanna. The story GUMGALI people of GUMBAYNGGIRR , of Coffs Harbour ,is very much treasured in their tales.
The western name of the Coffs Harbour dates to the XIX century when and John Korff named the area Korff’s Harbour while being to seek shelter from powerful storm . It was 1847, but in 1861 some error took place and accidentally name was changed by the surveyor for the crown to Coffs Harbour. In its early history town was centre for timber industry , while now it is important tourist centre , with beautiful beaches , lovely hilly country side where , due to the mild climate even bananas were growing and were farmed of commercial scale .
Coffs Harbour in early days of its history was depending on its rivers of the region . Until opening of the North Coast Railway Line these waterways presented great opportunity to move the timber to the awaiting boats . Some by the historical jetty in Coffs Harbour Bay . This jetty is biggest timber jetty in NSW and was constructed in 1892 . Ironbark, Grey Gum, White Mahogany, Tallowwood, Grey Box and Turpentine being local trees were used to construct this ocean jetty .
Coffs Harbor being nearly half way between Sydney and Brisbane , can offer for some welcome rest on the voyage to Queensland or can also be simply place to make lovely holiday in this attractive area on NSW . The town of Coffs Harbour can be reached by plane and as well by NSW Railways System . While on the train and in comfort of XPT trains , travelers are presented with opportunity to visual exploration of the NSW Country side .
Overseas visitors can fly Singapore Airlines to Sydney and Brisbane or use LOT Polish Airlines to Asian cities of Tokyo , Beijing and soon Seoul , where Singapore Airlines services await . Within Australia domestic airlines like Qantas , Jetstar and Virgin Airlines provide attractive range of services . Of course railway travel is the truly leisurely way of reaching Coffs Harbour .
WMIG August 2016
Mitch Godziemba Swiat
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