I had read about Shanes Park recently in Peter Ridgeway’s excellent book “A Wide and Open Land”, his account of a multi-day walk across a fair length of the Cumberland Plain. One of the gems of the plain seemed to be Shanes Park, near Shalvey, a 560 hectare area that had previously been used a a telecommunications facility. The Park is a bushland remnant in quite good condition and many interesting plants and animals can be found there still. When friend Deb, invited me to join her on a visit to the Park organised by the Bankstown Bushland Society I was glad to accept.
The Park has recently been transferred to National Parks and they intend to fence it off and use it for re-wilding. Introducing back animals such as quolls. You can read about their plans here. Continue reading
