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Escapades into the bush. Those were the free-ranging days of our youth "When you look down across the lake from the southern end of Munibung Hill, it’s a million dollar…
Escapades into the bush. Those were the free-ranging days of our youth "When you look down across the lake from the southern end of Munibung Hill, it’s a million dollar…
Back in the days pre-television, tablets and mobile phones, us kids were more inventive and self reliant - we made our own fun. We didn't consider going to the shops…
Mr Hoot, the Powerful Owl, was a children’s favourite Marilyn and Les Anderson bought land on the north eastern slopes of Munibung Hill in the late 1960s. It was…
Kevin Bullen has been in the Cardiff area for 76 years. First at Russell Street, then Orchard Road, then purchasing a house in Grenada Ave, Macquarie Hills. That was back…
"Lockdown has imposed many irritating restrictions. However, it has also motivated me to walk across Munibung Hill far more frequently than I have in the past," says Fergus Hancock, a…
"The ecology is so important, but it is so often side-lined or worse, overlooked. The changes in our socio-economics can mean that people value material possessions over the absolute essential contribution…
Evelyn Ruth Petersen was no slouch when it comes to making the best of what's at hand, as Sharon Walker (n.d.-b) her granddaughter, tells us in the first of two…
"My mother, Nita, used to take groups of us kids up Munibung when we were little. She would prepare sandwiches for us and she'd take us up the easy way…
We're spoilt for choice when it comes to selecting places to walk in the company of friends and colleagues. Every week there's somewhere different to go, without having to repeat…
Munibung Hill is a jewel in the crown for Lake Macquarie, says Ken McGregor. "There is no other place in the region where there can be views like those from…