Why Wingham?
What 2429 has that nowhere else does. Every fact sourced.
- A riverside rainforest saved by volunteers
Wingham Brush is a remnant of lowland tropical rainforest on the Manning River with huge Moreton Bay figs. Volunteers brought it back from weed-infested public land.Source: Wikipedia
- Flying foxes fly out every night
A colony of grey-headed flying foxes lives in Wingham Brush and flies out over the Manning River every night. Once treated as pests, they're now protected and draw visitors.Source: Wikipedia
- The Bonnie Wingham Scottish Festival
Wingham holds its Bonnie Wingham Scottish Festival, usually on the first weekend of June. The town's calendar also includes a rodeo, Beef Week and a campdraft.Source: Wikipedia
- Proclaimed a village in 1844
Wingham was proclaimed a village in 1844, ten years before Henry Flett laid out Taree in 1854.Source: Wikipedia
And the whole area: Why Taree?
Big river, big story. Every fact sourced.
- A huge single drop
Ellenborough Falls, near Wingham, is described as the second longest single-drop waterfall in the Southern Hemisphere.Source: Wikipedia
- A double delta river
The Manning is called the only double delta river in the southern hemisphere with two permanent entrances to the sea, at Harrington and Old Bar.Source: Wikipedia
- Lighthouse since 1878
Crowdy Head Light was built in 1878.Source: Wikipedia
- Named after a fig tree
Taree comes from the Biripi word tareebit, meaning tree by the river: the sandpaper fig.Source: Wikipedia
- Biripi Country
Taree is on Biripi Country.Source: Wikipedia
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