Bundanoon Village, NSW, Australia

Описание: Bundanoon in The Southern Highlands has Excellent Accommodation, there are many Things to Do, Places to Go and many Restaurants, Cafes and even a wonderful Olde Worlde Pub. Just 90 minutes from Canberra and Sydney it is close enough to visit with young children, and you can experience a completely different Country Lifestyle.

There is even a Farm Stay called Morvern Valley where you can rent a cottage for a weekend or a week! Morvern Valley was one of the earliest guest accommodations in Bundanoon.

In Bundanoon you can go Horse Riding, or Visit the Sunnatarum Monastry. See Glow Worms in a ‘must do’ twilight adventure walk. The Morton National Park has great bushwalking including Fairy Bower Waterfalls, Erith Coal Mine. Coal Creek, Lovers Walk, Fossil Beds, Bonnie View, The Grand Canyon, Beauchamp Cliffs, Tooth’s Lookout, Gambell’s Rest and more!

Hamilton Hume (of later Hume and Hovell fame) has generally been credited as the first white man to find his way to the Bowral/Moss Vale locality in 1814. Dr. Charles Throsby first mentions this exact area in his diary in 1818. In his expedition diary he refers to Bundanoon as "Bantanoon" - from the local aboriginal name meaning "place of deep gullies”.

The site of the present village of Bundanoon had been a meeting and trading place for the Wadi-wadi and Gandangara peoples for centuries. Coal creek which crosses Morvern Valley Bundanoon was a creek used by these peoples. There are sharpening grooves and rock paintings on the surfaces of the sandstone of Coal Creek near to Morvern Valley of these indigenous peoples.

The deep gullies at Bundanoon were seen as a barrier to communication and travel. Indeed Throsby realized looking out over the cliffs that there was to be no easy access to the coast from this area which is what he had been seeking. But the magnificent scenery of The Gullies so impressed Throsby, that he immediately began to urge Governor Lachlan Macquarie to declare what we call today a heritage reserve, of a thousand acres, over the area (granted in 1824) next to Morvern Valley Farm Stay. This natural reserve Charles Throsby was so dedicated to preserve, is today the Bundanoon section of the Morton National Park just a 500 meter walk from Morvern Valley.

The Gullies with their beautiful lookouts, waterfalls and escarpments were to later be one of the most important ingredients in the development of the village. The Gullies had immense visual value for tourism – indeed the deep gullies have made Bundanoon what it is today.

Early settlement of Europeans in this area of The Southern Highlands had mainly been in the vicinity of Berrima and Suttons Forest. But after the Land Act of 1861 was passed, selectors began taking up land towards present day Bundanoon. Travelling was very hard in the early days for these settlers as the railway did not arrive until 1868.

Horseback, Bullock teams and sturdy horse and carts were the only transport available for people, supplies and equipment. The Morvern Valley Original Homestead fronts onto Grey Gum Lane - this narrow lane was the original route the first explorers traversed to open up the Southern areas of NSW – the ‘main road’ of its time!

Bundanoon was merely a few scattered farms until the arrival of the Railway en route to Goulburn in 1868. Morvern Valley was one of those scattered farms since 1862. The Tooth Family were one of the very Earliest Settlers of Bundanoon. There were 86 guesthouses in Bundanoon and Morvern Valley operated as one of these as early as 1896.