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The Chapel of Light is a wedding and conference venue in the midst of manicured golf course fairways and impressive water features along with native forest along the fairway boundaries.
The impressive building was built in 2021 to house up to 80 guests and features floor to ceiling windows which overlook Tallwoods Golf Course.
The Chapel of Light, with its timber lined cathedral ceilings, elegant stained-glass windows, wooden pews and French doors, delivers a uniquely romantic ambiance.
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A very warm day and enjoyable social event, a break for coffee and cake plus ended at Indie Rabble micro-brewery under the arches at Windsor. Refreshing drink or two was very welcome.
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The Manning River is the only River along the East Coast of Australia that has two entrances to the sea. Apart from this entrance here at Harrington the Manning also enters the sea via an alternate channel at Old Bar known as the Farquhar Entrance.
Both entrances have become shoaled up over the last 25 years making passage to sea virtually impossible for most marine craft.
Considering the significance of the Manning as one of Australia's leading wooden shipbuilding locations dating from to the 1840s (Pelican Shipyards) it's disappointing that the river has been allowed by NSW Governments to shoal up so badly down its former main channel that today no water runs to sea along the costly break wall built in the early 1900's.
The Manning River these days accesses the sea only over a wide but shallow 600-metre sandy shoal which is virtually impossible to navigate by even the smallest boat.
The reasons for the natural closing of the river are complex however some of the main reasons relate to hinterland land-clearing which has significantly increased erosion and the speed of drainage from the land to the river leading to increased deposition at the estuary mouth.
Another factor undoubtedly has been a lack of consistent floods of sufficient velocity and duration to reopen the closed off Harrington breakwall channel. While there's no doubt that climate change has played a part, the river's hydraulics has been also impacted by human intervention by the building of training walls.
Complex and poorly engineered breakwalls built long ago to train water flow appear to have failed, today with the river requiring significant and ongoing expensive dredging to maintain open deep channels to sea.
Local interest groups have been actively lobbying state and federal politicians seeking funding to dredge the river channels for many years and finally in March 2021, the NSW Government announced funding for the development of a strategic business case (SBC) that looks at options for a permanent entrance to the Manning River.
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Jan 23, 2022, day after the Packers lost to the 49ers in the divisional play round 13-10, blowing a 7 pt lead in the last 5 minutes. One of a series of 3 photos.
LoveShackFancy is by far the girliest and prettiest shop I have ever seen. King Street may be my new happy place.
Nighttime tour of Charleston’s cemeteries. St. Michaels, the Circular Church, and the Powder Magazine.
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Ficus dammaropsis, known as kapiak in Tok Pisin, a Pidgin English language of New Guinea, is a tropical dioecious evergreen fig tree with huge, pleated leaves 60cm (24in) across and up to 90cm (3 feet) in length on petioles as much as thirteen inches (32cm) long and one inch (2.5cm) thick. These emerge from a stipular sheath up to 14 inches (38cm) long, the largest of any dicot.
Native to the highlands and highland fringe of New Guinea, Ficus dammaropsis grows at altitudes of between 850metres and 2,750 metres (2,790 and 9,020 ft).
The fruit of Ficus dammaropsis are the world's largest figs (syconia), being up to six inches (15cm) in diameter. The fruits are edible, but rarely eaten, except as an emergency food.
Two fruit colour variants are known in Ficus dammaropsis, red and green. In New Guinea, the species is pollinated by the tiny wasp, Ceratosolon abnormis.
The young leaves of Ficus dammaropsis are pickled or cooked and eaten as a vegetable with pig meat by highlanders.
The lowland form of this species, Ficus brusii, has a different and smaller flower form with less pleated leaves to Ficus dammaropsis. It is found commonly below nine hundred meters and is recognized as a distinct species.
The species can be found at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, and is located in the ‘Yucca Bed’.
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"Grevillea ‘Dorothy Gordon’ originated in Myall Park Botanic Garden, just like her famous daughter namesakes Grevillea ‘Robyn Gordon’, Grevillea ‘Sandra Gordon’ and Grevillea ‘Merinda Gordon’. This beautiful new hybrid is the Directors’ selection with parentage from Western Australian and Queensland. Both parents are widely separated botanically and regionally, and thus Grevillea ‘Dorothy Gordon’ has no fertile seeds."
Myall Park Botanic Garden is a heritage-listed botanic garden at Myall Park Road, Glenmorgan, Western Downs Region, Queensland, Australia. It was founded by grazier David Morrice Gordon who made the first plantings on his Myall Park sheep station in 1941. Wikipedia
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Wallis Island European chateau-style mansion, Chateau Le Marais, is accessible only by boat or a helicopter. The 104 hectare property boasts a 990 square metre five-bedroom, six-bathroom house that overlooks Wallis Lake, and includes 1.5 kilometres of lake frontage, an orchard, lagoons, fishing wetlands and its own botanical gardens.
Woollahra, Sydney, antique dealer Andre Fink and his wife Cecile bought the Wallis Island property in 1996 for around $290,000. They proceeded to commission a luxurious mansion worthy of holding their unique 18th-century antique collection.
Chateau Le Marais was built by master stonemasons in a grand French chateau style with its decor and skilled labour sourced from around the world. Featuring several French fireplaces, Sphinx-like sculptures guarding the entrance, chandeliers, oak parquetry floors and ornate carvings on the gable completed the buildings impressive façade.
With his Woollahra Antique business going through hard times due to the GFC in 2011, the Finks tried to sell the property. Although incomplete, Chateau Le Marais was reported to have been initially marketed for $20 million then $18 million, and then $16 million.
When the property failed to sell it was withdrawn from the market in 2013 and the Finks ultimately defaulted on their loans to the ANZ bank. Subsequently the bank assumed control of the property in 2014. In early 2015, a court ruled that an amount of $3.4 million of the loans were valid and binding, rejecting the Fink's assertion that the bank had taken an “unconscientious advantage of its superior bargaining position”.
In January 2018, Cubecorp Realty was reportedly marketing the property with a guide of about $10 million.
Sydney developer Adam Dai then purchased the property for an undisclosed sum and completed much of the unfinished work on the building for an amount reported to be in the vicinity of several million dollars. Mr Dai had used the property to host family and business guests, but due to a busy work schedule in Sydney, had decided to sell.
In 2019 the asking price at auction was reportedly around $6 million, however, although several buyers were interested, that asking price failed to attract a buyer and in early 2022, as far as I understand, the property remains in the hands of Adam Dai.
Reference - www.domain.com.au/news/nothing-similar-the-wallis-island-...
I will do a bit of homework and see if I can add some details of ownership prior to the Finks purchasing the property in 1996.
Image taken from the Free Spirit Cruise Boat.