Notes from a Small Valley A Natural History of Wolli Creek II Vivid and Beautiful

This is the second part of my natural history of the Wolli Creek Valley in Sydney, Australia. Part I, Prehistory, gave an overview of the Valley’s geology and local fossil and archaeological record. This part describes how the Valley may have appeared in the early 1790s, shortly after the First Fleet brought the Europeans to Sydney in 1788 but before they settled along Wolli Creek from 1804.