Sutherland Shire Cycleways - Cache #12 Traditional Cache

This cache has been archived.

wazza9: Due to road works that are going to take over a year and the site being dangerous, I am left with no choice but to archive this cache.
I will set up a new cache when the area is again safe.

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Hidden : 1/31/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Cache #12 – Oyster farming in Botany Bay/Georges River.
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Sutherland Shire Cycleways - Cache #12 – Oyster farming in Botany Bay.
Sutherland Shire Cycleways – Eastern Trail
This cycle trail is set up to introduce you to the diverse and yet intertwined natural and social landscape along the southern side of Botany Bay.
Remember that to harvest your Oyster it has to be raised above the surface.

There are many people who helped create the history in the Oyster industry on the Georges River and Botany Bay. The people talked about here are just some of those many.
Bob Drake: The name Drake has been synonymous with the NSW oyster industry since 1876. And in 2010 it was brothers Bob, Len and Ted Drake, fourth generation oyster farmers, who were respected as the old hands of Sydney’s renowned Georges River. Bob has been oyster farming all his life, after leaving school at 14 to work with his father on the family leases in the Georges River, the largest and oldest Sydney Rock oyster fishery.
Mr Robert (Bob) Drake has been given an Order of Australia Medal. The award recognises his dedicated service to the oyster industry and reflects the regard in which Bob is held by oyster industry colleagues.
A fourth generation oyster farmer, Bob left school to work in the Georges River oyster industry at 14 years of age. He ran his business with his brothers from Neverfail Bay and Woolooware Bay close to Shark Park, which is where this cache is located and is a site often used as a film set, notably for “The Oyster Farmer”.
Glenn Emery: also knows his way around the oyster shell. In 1958, aged 11, Glenn Emery stood on a box and opened oysters until late at night to help out his father, Tom. "I had to forgo my homework," he reported in an interview, "and got into trouble at school. But I left when I was 14 and started working."

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