Ang Kalatas Volume IV September 2014 Issue | Page 19
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