After the whale watch, Ken and I had a light lunch at Salty Joes in the main street of Huskisson. In the afternoon Nathan drove us to The Jervis Bay Maritime Museum which features a collection of maritime artefacts and navigational and surveying instruments and other nautical equipment, models, photographs and works of art. There was also a nice little gift shop to browse in. It is home to the historic Lady Denman, housed inside the Museum, which is located in a beautiful bush setting, complete with native gardens and mangrove boardwalk, in a waterfront location on Currambene Creek.
The Lady Denman was a wooden Sydney Harbour Ferry, the hull of which was built in Huskisson in 1911 from local timber. She was retired from service in 1979 and returned home to Huskisson in 1980.
Lady Gertrude Denman was the wife of Australia's Governor-General, Thomas Denman 1911-1914.
Farewell South Coast
Bombo viewed here along the Princes Highway near Kiama |
2 comments:
I like trains but not too keen on boats so usually give maritime museums a miss. Interesting the ferry is there
It was strange to see the ferry inside the museum. Evidently they built the museum around the ferry. Someone went to a lot of trouble to preserve this old boat.
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