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THE MESSAGE. BRINGING INTO FOCUS FILIPINO PRESENCE IN AUSTRALIA www.kalatas.com.au | Volume 4 Number 12 | September 2014 LIFESTYLE & TRAVEL OUT ‘N BACK Brooklyn, NSW not Brooklyn NY Y Fitzies Seafoods Fishing off the pontoon with Dangar island in the background Brooklyn Baths ep, not Brooklyn, i n Ne w Yo r k or Nova Scotia West in Canada but our very own Brooklyn in NSW also with a bridge and, instead of a forest of buildings and cars in the background, we actually have a forest of trees and animals on the ground and even Dangar Island in the background. We can even swim and fish in our waters! Both bridges were built in the same decade, Brooklyn Bridge NY in 1883 and Brooklyn Bridge, NSW in 1889. Both bridges are used to transport people and vehicles but that is where the similarities stop. While of similar name, the two Brooklyns are not related although incidentally it was the Union Bridge Company from New York that won the contract to build our one. Most of us who like to spend endless hours wetting the line hoping for a piscatorial reward, know that the Hawkesbury River is one of Sydney’s best fishing Wild hawkesbury oysters spots. And that’s the river under our Bro