Access to toilet/change facilities Actively maintained Disabled Access

Men Women Children

Current Use: Ocean baths.
Condition: Good, facilities at pool.

1970s
The Norah Head pool was created.

1997
More than 100 people gathered at Norah Head rock pool to witness the baptism of seven people from Gorokan Baptist Church.

2002
The Norah Head Coastcare group worked to remove noxious weeds at the headland at the top of the rock pool steps. Coastcare Week 2002 included an organism display at the Norah Head rock pool, followed by a rock pool ramble.

Present
The Norah Head caravan park is close to beaches and the famous rock pool and popular with residents of Newcastle and the Hunter Valley, for whom it is now only a 40-minute drive.

 

There are quite a few Cabbage Tree Bays, Cabbage Tree Harbours, Cabbage Tree creeks and places called 'Cabbage Tree' around Australia's east coast. The Cabbage Tree is a native Australian palm (Livistona australis) found in the lowland forests and swamps of eastern Australia and once common in the Sydney area. The 'cabbage' is the palm's growing tip, which was a traditional food for Aboriginal people and a popular food with Australia's early European settlers, but harvesting this 'cabbage' kills the tree. In the nineteenth-century, cabbage tree fibres were used to make the popular cabbage tree hats.-

1870s
The area around Norah Head was farmed.

1903
Many boats had been wrecked on the dangerous reefs off Noraville before construction of the Norah Head lighthouse around 1903.

1928
There were boarding houses at Noraville. Access was via the motor bus from Toukley or a launch from Wyong.

1939
The Toukley bridge replaced a previous land route along a bush track.

To be added.

Ring-of-rocks bathing pool used as a social and recreational centre and sometimes for baptisms.

Assessed significance: Local.
Current heritage status: Not yet given heritage status.
 

Related Topics Campers & caravanners Light houses Religious ceremonies Ring-of-rocks pools

Studies & References To be added.